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2 Chronicles 11:17

in 2 Chronicles 11

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 11

Commentary

8 notes on this verse
Three years - i. e., during the first three years of Rehoboam’s reign. In the fourth year an apostasy took place, which neutralized all the advantages of the immigration (marginal reference). In the fifth the apostasy was punished by the invasion and success of Shishak 2Ch 12:2.

This site's exposition

set their hearts to seek

on 2 Chronicles 11:16-17

Seeking is the verb Chronicles uses from 1 Chronicles 16:10-11 to 15:2, “If you seek Him, He will be found by you”. They strengthen Judah for three years, and Barnes marks the count: the fourth year brings Rehoboam's apostasy at 12:1 and the fifth brings Shishak.

This site's exposition

strengthened the kingdom of Judah

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown describe a large body of faithful people who left the north with the Levites and came to Jerusalem. They strengthened Judah and supported Rehoboam for three years. Barnes dates the end: apostasy came in the fourth year and the invasion of Shishak in the fifth.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), not only by the addition of so many persons to it, who, it is likely, brought what they could of their effects with them, but by their piety and their prayers they procured a blessing upon the kingdom which was a sanctuary to them. It is the interest of a nation to protect and encourage religion and religious people, and adds more than any thing to its strength.

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So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah,....

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The priests and Levites, refusing to take part in the idolatrous ceremonies, were ejected from their living [2Ch 11:13, 14]. Along with them a large body of the people who faithfully adhered to the instituted worship of God, offended and shocked by the impious innovations, departed from the kingdom.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

they strengthened the kingdom of Judah--The innovating measures of Jeroboam were not introduced all at once. But as they were developed, the secession of the most excellent of his subjects began, and continuing to increase for three years, lowered the tone of religion in his kingdom, while it proportionally quickened its life and extended its influence in that of Judah.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

For three years they walked in the way of David - During this time he prospered; but for fourteen years after this he and the people were unfaithful to the Lord, except at such intervals as the hand of God’s judgments was upon them.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַֽיְחַזְּקוּ֙and they strengthened

    vaychazekuH2388 →291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מַלְכ֣וּת[the] kingdom of

    malkhutH4438 →91 times

  • יְהוּדָ֔הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • וַֽיְאַמְּצ֛וּand they strengthened

    vayametzuH553 →41 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • רְחַבְעָ֥םRehoboam

    rechavamH7346 →50 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֖הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • לְשָׁנִ֣יםfor years

    leshanimH8141 →877 times

  • שָׁל֑וֹשׁthree

    shalooshH7969 →432 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • הָֽלְכ֗וּthey walked

    halekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • בְּדֶ֧רֶךְin [the] way of

    bederekhH1870 →707 times

  • דָּוִ֛ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • וּשְׁלֹמֹ֖הand Solomon

    ushelomohH8010 →291 times

  • לְשָׁנִ֥יםfor years

    leshanimH8141 →877 times

  • שָׁלֽוֹשׁ׃three

    shalooshH7969 →432 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Hosea 6:4

    What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 78:34–37

      When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

    • Hosea 11:8

      How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within…

    • Hosea 13:3

      Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

    • Psalms 106:12–13

      Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.

    • Matthew 13:21

      But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 12:1

    After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 12:13

      Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of…

    • 2 Chronicles 26:13–16

      Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.

    • 1 Kings 14:22–24

      And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.