24 Bible Verses About Division
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Featured Verse
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
Bible Verses About Division
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
And one of Joab’s men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
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