2 Chronicles 13:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

The kingdom

Luke 19:14

A great multitude

2 Chronicles 14:9

2 Chronicles 20:6

Psalm 33:16

With you golden

Bible References

The kingdom

Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you, setting you on His throne as king for the Lord your God; because your God loved Israel establishing them forever, therefore He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?

“Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,”

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

A great multitude

Now Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

and he said, “O Lord, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You.

The king is not saved by a mighty army;

A warrior is not delivered by great strength.

With you golden

He set up priests of his own for the high places, for the satyrs and for the calves which he had made.

So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back—

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,

“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?