2 Chronicles 12:1
And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
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Deuteronomy 6:10And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,
Deuteronomy 32:15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
Judges 2:15But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.
1 Kings 12:17But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over them.
1 Kings 14:22And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.
2 Chronicles 11:3Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the king of Juda, and to all Israel, in Juda and Benjamin:
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 12:1
This chapter gives us a more full account of the reign of Rehoboam than we had before in Kings and it is a very melancholy account. Methinks we are in the book of Judges again; for, I. Rehoboam and his people did evil in the sight of the Lord, ver. 1 . II. God thereupon sold them into the hands of Shishak, king of Egypt, who greatly oppressed them, ver. 2-4 . III. God sent a prophet to them, to expound to them the judgment and to call them to repentance, ver. 5 . IV. They thereupon humbled themselves, ver. 6 . V.… Read the whole commentary →