This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... the temple, as God had commanded; but he set up two golden calves in that part of the land where the ten tribes lived, and taught the people to worship them. Yet the priests and the Levites who were living among the ten tribes at that time, would not worship the golden calves. They came, with many other persons, to live at Jerusalem, and chose Rehoboam for their king. And they made his kingdom greater and stronger by coming, because there were so many of them, and because they were the ones whom the Lord would bless. And for three years Rehoboam and his people did what was right, and obeyed the Lord. But when he grew rich and strong, and was no longer in fear that his kingdom would be taken from him, he ceased obeying the Lord. For he and all the people of Judah began to worship idols, and, like the people of Israel, they built high places in the cities, and made groves on the hills, where they set up their idols and worshipped them. Then the Lord sent the king of Egypt against Judah. That king brought with him twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen, and a very great army, and he took many cities in the land, and afterward came up to Jerusalem. And Rehoboam and the princes of the people were afraid of him. And there came a prophet, who said to them, Thus saith the Lord: You have left off serving Me, therefore I will not help you against the king of Egypt. When Eehoboam and the princes heard this, they bowed their heads, and confessed that the Lord did right to punish them. Then the Lord sent his prophet again to tell them, that because they humbled themselves before Him, the king of Egypt should not destroy them, and yet, because they had done wickedly, he should make them his servants. So the king of Egypt came with his army into Jerusalem, a...