“When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.