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Jeroboam builds Shechem and Penuel; a representative construction scene may show both plans without false simultaneous presence.
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1 Kings 12:25

Shechem and Penuel fortified

The Kingdom Divides · 1 Kings 12

Story guide: Workers raise walls on a hill-country site as Jeroboam's building of Shechem, then Penuel, is shown in one representative scene; the passage does not describe the construction itself.

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25Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went on to fortify Penuel.

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