2 Chronicles 11:4
‘This is what the Lord says: Don't fight against your relatives. Every one of you, go home! For what has happened is down to me.’” So they obeyed what the Lord told them and did not fight against Jeroboam.
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In Context
3“Tell Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, and all the Israelites living in Judah and Benjamin:
5Rehoboam stayed in Jerusalem, and he strengthened the defenses of the towns in Judah.
Cross References
Genesis 13:8So Abram said to Lot, “Please don't let's have arguments between us, or between our herdsmen, because we're family.
2 Samuel 2:26Abner shouted to Joab: “Do we have to keep killing each other forever? Don't you realize that if we go on it'll only get worse? How long are you going to wait before you order your men to stop chasing their brothers?”
1 Kings 22:36At sunset, a shout went out from the lines: “Retreat! Every man back to his town, every man back to his own country!”
2 Chronicles 25:7But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, don't let this army of Israel join you, for the Lord is not with Israel, with these sons of Ephraim!
Psalms 33:11But the Lord's plan stands forever—what he decides lasts for all generations.
Acts 7:26The next day when he arrived, two Israelites were fighting one another. He tried to reconcile them and stop the fight. ‘Men! You are brothers!’ he told them. ‘Why are you attacking each other?’
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 11:2-13
Rehoboam Forbidden to Make War. ( b. c. 975.) 1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. 2 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 4 Thus saith the Lord , Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your… Read the whole commentary →