2 Chronicles 11:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

Against

1 John 3:11

Return

2 Chronicles 10:16

1 Kings 22:36

For this thing

Hosea 8:4

They obeyed

2 Chronicles 25:7

2 Chronicles 28:9

Bible References

Against

Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?

And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?

I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

Return

And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.

And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.

For this thing

So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.

Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road; now Ahijah had put on a new robe; and the two of them were by themselves in the open country.

The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.

They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

They obeyed

But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with you; for the Lord is not with Israel, that is, the children of Ephraim.

But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.