1Ki 12:25 | JFB | STEP | 25. Jeroboam built Shechem —destroyed by Abimelech ( ). It was rebuilt, and perhaps fortified, by Jeroboam, as a royal residence. built Penuel —a ruined city with a tower ( ), 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 quarter.

1 Kings 12:25

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 quarter.