Points To Ponder 08/16/2013

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POINTS TO PONDER:

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Consensus is no substitute for leadership; character is formed in the midst of people in crisis, not in solitude or in prosperity. - Charlotte Beers

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BIBLE QUIZ: 

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Old Testament/Stories of Solomon (I Kings 11:23 ff)

. . . And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: 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. 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.

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. And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph. And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field: And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee _____ pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will take the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give _______ tribes to thee: .

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How many tribes did the Lord give to Jeroboam?

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