2 Chronicles 12:1, Rehoboam, forsaking the Lord, is punished by Shishak; 2 Chronicles 12:5, He and the princes, repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah, are delivered from destruction, but not from spoil; 2 Chronicles 12:13, The reign and death of Rehoboam.
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2 Chronicles 12 — Overview2 Chronicles 12 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter gives us a more full account of the reign of Rehoboam than
we had before in Kings and it is a very melancholy account. Methinks we
are in the book of Judges again; for, I. Rehoboam and his people did…2 Chronicles 12 — Overview2 Chronicles 12 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleRehoboam and his people forsaking the law of the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt is allowed by God to invade his land, and take his fenced cities, 2Ch 12:1, upon which a prophet of the Lord was sent to him and his princes,…2 Chronicles 12:1-122 Chronicles 12:1-12 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIsrael was very much disgraced and weakened by being divided into two
kingdoms; yet the kingdom of Judah, having both the temple and the
royal city, both the house of David and the house of Aaron, might have…2 Chronicles 12:12 Chronicles 12:1 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeam 3032, bc 972
when Rehoboam: 2 Chronicles 12:13, 2 Chronicles 11:17
he forsook: 2 Chronicles 26:13-16; Deuteronomy 6:10-12, Deuteronomy 8:10-14, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:18; 1 Kings 9:9; Jeremiah 2:31;…2 Chronicles 12:22 Chronicles 12:2 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeam 3034, bc 970
Shishak: 1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 14:24-26
because: 2 Chronicles 7:19-20, 2 Chronicles 36:14-19; Judges 2:13-15; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Nehemiah 9:26-27; Psalms 106:43-44; Isaiah 63:10; Jeremiah 2:19,…2 Chronicles 12:22 Chronicles 12:2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd it came to pass in the fifth year of Rehoboam,.... In the fourth year, the apostasy of him and his people began; and, in the year following, what is next related happened, as a punishment of it:Shishak king of Egypt…