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1 Chronicles 3 10-1 Chronicles 3 14
Solomon’s son was Rehoboam; his son was Abijah, his son Asa, his son Jehoshaphat,his son Jehoram, his son Ahaziah, his son Joash,his son Amaziah, his son Azariah, his son Jotham,his son Ahaz, his son Hezekiah, his son Manasseh,his son Amon, and his son Josiah.
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1 Kings 15 8-1 Kings 15 23
Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place.In the twentieth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Asa became king of Judahand reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.Asa did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, as his ancestor David had done.He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.The high places were not taken away; but Asa’s heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life.He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into the Lord’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns.Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to deny anyone access to Judah’s King Asa.So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace and put it into the hands of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus, saying,“ There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.”Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, all Chinnereth, and the whole land of Naphtali.When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah.Then King Asa gave a command to everyone without exception in Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah with them.The rest of all the events of Asa’s reign, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet.
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2 Chronicles 12 1
When Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he abandoned the law of the Lord— he and all Israel with him.
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2 Chronicles 14 1-2 Chronicles 14 15
Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place. During his reign the land experienced peace for 10 years.Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.He told the people of Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the commands.He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom experienced peace under him.Because the land experienced peace, Asa built fortified cities in Judah. No one made war with him in those days because the Lord gave him rest.So he said to the people of Judah,“ Let’s build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we sought the Lord our God. We sought Him and He gave us rest on every side.” So they built and succeeded.Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 from Benjamin bearing regular shields and drawing the bow. All these were brave warriors.Then Zerah the Cushite came against them with an army of one million men and 300 chariots. They came as far as Mareshah.So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.Then Asa cried out to the Lord his God:“ Lord, there is no one besides You to help the mighty and those without strength. Help us, Lord our God, for we depend on You, and in Your name we have come against this large army. Yahweh, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal hinder You.”So the Lord routed the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled.Then Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell until they had no survivors, for they were crushed before Yahweh and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great supply of loot.Then they attacked all the cities around Gerar because the terror of the Lord was on them. They also plundered all the cities, since there was a great deal of plunder in them.They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and captured many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 9 31
Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam became king in his place.
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1 Kings 14 31
Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam became king in his place.
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1 Kings 11 43-1 Kings 12 24
Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam became king in his place.Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about it, for he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon’s presence, Jeroboam stayed in Egypt.They summoned him, and Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam:“ Your father made our yoke difficult. You, therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”Rehoboam replied,“ Go home for three days and then return to me.” So the people left.Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking,“ How do you advise me to respond to these people?”They replied,“ Today if you will be a servant to these people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and served him.He asked them,“ What message do you advise that we send back to these people who said to me,‘ Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”Then the young men who had grown up with him told him,“ This is what you should say to these people who said to you,‘ Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us!’ This is what you should tell them:‘ My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!Although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’”So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered:“ Return to me on the third day.”Then the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice the elders had given himand spoke to them according to the young men’s advice:“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events came from the Lord to carry out His word, which the Lord had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents; David, now look after your own house! So Israel went to their tents,but Rehoboam reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to get into the chariot and flee to Jerusalem.Israel is in rebellion against the house of David until today.When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized 180,000 choice warriors from the entire house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin to fight against the house of Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.But a revelation from God came to Shemaiah, the man of God:“ Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, to the whole house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,‘ This is what the Lord says: You are not to march up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for I have done this.’” So they listened to what the Lord said and went back as He had told them.
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2 Chronicles 13 7
Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young, inexperienced, and unable to assert himself against them.
