Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
Vain men
The children of belial
Could not
Bible References
Vain men
Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy shekels of silver out of the house of Baalberith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light men who followed him.
Judges 11:3
Then Jephthah fled from his brethren and dwelt in the land of Tob; and vain men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.
1 Samuel 22:2
And every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt and all whose souls were bitter gathered themselves unto him, and he became the captain over them, and there were about four hundred men with him.
Job 30:8
They were sons of fools and men without names; they were lower than the earth.
Psalm 26:4
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
Proverbs 12:11
He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.
Proverbs 28:19
He that tills his land shall be filled with bread, but he that follows after vain persons shall be filled with poverty.
Acts 17:5
But the disobedient Jews, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.
Titus 1:10
For there are many insubordinate and vain talkers and deceivers of souls, especially those of the circumcision,
The children of belial
Deuteronomy 13:13
certain men, the sons of Belial, are gone out from among you and have incited the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known,
1 Kings 21:10
and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him that he may die.
Could not
2 Chronicles 11:1
And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.