2 Chronicles 12:1
When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the LORD’s law, and all Israel with him.
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Deuteronomy 6:10It shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
Judges 2:15Wherever they went out, the LORD’s hand was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
1 Kings 12:17But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
1 Kings 14:22Judah did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
2 Chronicles 11:3“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
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 →