12:25 3 Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.
1 sn The phrase city of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
2 tn Heb “As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the terrace.”
3 tc The Old Greek translation has here a lengthy section consisting of twenty-three verses that are not found in the MT.