The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
KI1 11:24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band,
when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt
therein, and reigned in Damascus.
KI1 11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned
over Syria.
KI1 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,
Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even
he lifted up his hand against the king.
KI1 11:27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the
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