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2 Chronicles 12:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

Shemaiah: 2 Chronicles 11:2; 1 Kings 12:22

Ye have forsaken me: 2 Chronicles 12:1-2, 2 Chronicles 15:2; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Judges 10:9-14; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 4:18, Jeremiah 5:19; Jeremiah 23:33

left you: 2 Samuel 24:14; Psalms 37:33

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