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Chronicles 10-12
2Ch
10:1 Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem
to make him king.
2Ch
10:2 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for
he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king
Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
2Ch
10:3 They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and
they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
2Ch
10:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the
grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on
us, lighter, and we will serve you.
2Ch
10:5 He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people
departed.
2Ch
10:6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood
before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do
you give me to return answer to this people?
2Ch
10:7 They spoke to him, saying, If you are kind to this people, and
please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your
servants forever.
2Ch
10:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given
him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him,
who stood before him.
2Ch
10:9 He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return
answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke
that your father did put on us lighter?
2Ch
10:10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying,
Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father
made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us; thus you shall say to
them, My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
2Ch
10:11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will
add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
2Ch
10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
2Ch
10:13 The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the
counsel of the old men,
2Ch
10:14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying,
My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father
chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
2Ch
10:15 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought
about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by
Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2Ch
10:16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the
people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your
tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. So all Israel
departed to their tents.
2Ch
10:17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of
Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
2Ch
10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject
to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with
stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to
flee to Jerusalem.
2Ch
10:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
2Ch
11:1 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of
Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were
warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to
Rehoboam.
2Ch
11:2 But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
2Ch
11:3 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all
Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
2Ch
11:4 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your
brothers: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So
they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against
Jeroboam.
2Ch
11:5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in
Judah.
2Ch
11:6 He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
2Ch
11:7 Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam,
2Ch
11:8 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2Ch
11:9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
2Ch
11:10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in
Benjamin, fortified cities.
2Ch
11:11 He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and
stores of food, and oil and wine.
2Ch
11:12 In every city he put
shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and
Benjamin belonged to him.
2Ch
11:13 The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to
him out of all their border.
2Ch
11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and
came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off,
that they should not execute the priest's office to Yahweh;
2Ch
11:15 and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the
male goats, and for the calves which he had made.
2Ch
11:16 After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their
hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to
sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
2Ch
11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam
the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years
in the way of David and Solomon.
2Ch
11:18 Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth
the son of David, and of
Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
2Ch
11:19 and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
2Ch
11:20 After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore
him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
2Ch
11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his
wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty
concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty
daughters.)
2Ch
11:22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even
the prince among his brothers; for he
was minded to make him king.
2Ch
11:23 He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all
the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave
them food in abundance. He sought for
them many wives.
2Ch
12:1 It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and
he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with
him.
2Ch
12:2 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed
against Yahweh,
2Ch
12:3 with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The
people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim,
the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
2Ch
12:4 He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came
to Jerusalem.
2Ch
12:5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes
of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak,
and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore
have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
2Ch
12:6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and
they said, Yahweh is righteous.
2Ch
12:7 When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of
Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will
not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my
wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2Ch
12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my
service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
2Ch
12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took
away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the
king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold
which Solomon had made.
2Ch
12:10 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and
committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept
the door of the king's house.
2Ch
12:11 It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of
Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the
guard chamber.
2Ch
12:12 When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him,
so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were
good things found.
2Ch
12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and
reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh
had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there:
and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
2Ch
12:14 He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to
seek Yahweh.
2Ch
12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written
in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after
the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and
Jeroboam continually.
2Ch
12:16 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.