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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

7 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

After the priests, the faithful of the other tribes follow: such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel come to Jerusalem to sacrifice, the verb Chronicles uses to measure every reign, already planted at 1 Chr 16:10-11 and returning through the book to 2 Chr 15:2, if ye seek him, he will be found of you. Their arrival strengthens the kingdom of Judah for three years, during which they walked in the way of David and Solomon. Albert Barnes notes the count matters: the fourth year brings Rehoboam's own apostasy at 12:1, and the fifth brings Shishak, so the three good years are bounded on both sides by the reign the Chronicler actually measures him by.

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

    vaychazekuH2388291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • מַלְכ֣וּת[the] kingdom of

    malkhutH443891 times

  • יְהוּדָ֔הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • וַֽיְאַמְּצ֛וּand they strengthened

    vayametzuH55341 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • רְחַבְעָ֥םRehoboam

    rechavamH734650 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֖הSolomon

    shelomohH8010291 times

  • לְשָׁנִ֣יםfor years

    leshanimH8141877 times

  • שָׁל֑וֹשׁthree

    shalooshH7969432 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • הָֽלְכ֗וּthey walked

    halekhuH19801546 times

  • בְּדֶ֧רֶךְin [the] way of

    bederekhH1870707 times

  • דָּוִ֛ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • וּשְׁלֹמֹ֖הand Solomon

    ushelomohH8010291 times

  • לְשָׁנִ֥יםfor years

    leshanimH8141877 times

  • שָׁלֽוֹשׁ׃three

    shalooshH7969432 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.

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.