1 Kings 12:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.

1 Kings 12:25 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 8:17
And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
Judges 8:8
And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.
Genesis 32:30-31
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. …
Judges 9:45-49
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. …
1 Kings 9:17-18
And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether, …

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Beth-El Ephraim Jeroboam Joseph

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 25-33)

We have here the beginning of the reign of Jeroboam. He built Shechem first and then Penuel—beautified and fortified them, and probably had a palace in each of them for himself (1 Kgs. 12:25), the former in Ephraim, the latter in Gad, on the other side Jordan. This might be proper; but he formed another project for the establishing of his kingdom which was fatal to the interests of religion in it.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

25. Jeroboam built Shechem--destroyed by Abimelech (Jud 9:1-49). It was rebuilt, and perhaps fortified, by Jeroboam, as a royal residence. built Penuel--a ruined city with a tower (Jud 8:9), east of Jordan, on the north bank of the Jabbok. It was an object of importance to restore this fortress (as it lay on the caravan road from Gilead to Damascus and Palmyra) and to secure his frontier on that q…