2 Chronicles 12:1

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Summary

And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.

When rehoboam

2 Chronicles 12:13

2 Chronicles 11:17

He forsook

Hosea 13:1

All israel

Bible References

When rehoboam

So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

He forsook

Under their direction was an elite army of 307,500, who could wage war with great power, to help the king against the enemy.

“Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,

When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—

Then he forsook God who made him,

And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the Lord has brought all this adversity on them.’”

“O generation, heed the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of thick darkness?
Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam;
We will no longer come to You’?

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.

He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he did wrong and died.

All israel

“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the sins which they committed.

Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary;
On them I will pour out My wrath like water.

“The statutes of Omri
And all the works of the house of Ahab are observed;
And in their devices you walk.
Therefore I will give you up for destruction
And your inhabitants for derision,
And you will bear the reproach of My people.”