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2 Chronicles 12:1

in 2 Chronicles 12

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And it came to pass, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.

KJV

And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 12

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

During the first three years of his reign his royal influence was exerted in the encouragement of the true religion. Security and ease led to religious decline, which, in the fourth year, ended in open apostasy. The example of the court was speedily followed by his subjects, for "all Israel was with him," that is, the people in his own kingdom.

This site's exposition

he forsook the law of the Lord

The chapter opens on the verb the whole book measures every reign by, reversed: Rehoboam forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him. Three years earlier 11:16-17 had the immigrants from the north setting their hearts to seek the Lord and Rehoboam walking in the way of David and Solomon; strength gained by seeking is lost by forsaking inside one chapter break. The epitaph Chronicles writes for this same king at 12:14 answers this opening verse directly.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

17 ), but it expired, and he grew remiss in the worship of God; in what instances we are not told, but he fell off, and Judah with him, here called Israel, because they walked in the evil ways into which Jeroboam had drawn the kingdom of Israel. Thus he did when he had established the kingdom and strengthened himself.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) because they thought it a yoke to hard, too heavy, upon them. "Well," saith God, "let them better themselves if they can; let the neighbouring princes rule them awhile, since they are not willing that I should rule them, and let them try how they like that.

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And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

He forsook the law of the Lord - This was after the three years mentioned 2Ch 11:17.
All Israel with him - i. e., “all Judah and Benjamin” - all the Israelites of those two tribes.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיְהִ֗יand it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • כְּהָכִ֞יןwhen established

    kehakhinH3559217 times

  • מַלְכ֤וּת[the] kingdom of

    malkhutH443891 times

  • רְחַבְעָם֙Rehoboam

    rechavamH734650 times

  • וּכְחֶזְקָת֔וֹand according to strengthening his

    ukhechezkatoH2393

  • עָזַ֖בhe forsook

    ʾazavH5800215 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    toratH8451219 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH36055413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • עִמּֽוֹ׃ פwith him

    imoH59731050 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

    Deuteronomy 32:15

    But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 31:20

      When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to…

    • Hosea 13:6

      When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

    • Deuteronomy 33:5

      So the LORD became King in Jeshurun when the leaders of the people gathered, when the tribes of Israel came together.

    • 1 Samuel 2:29

      Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all…

    • Psalms 89:26

      He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 14:21

      Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. 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…

    • 2 Chronicles 6:6

      But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

    • Deuteronomy 12:5

      Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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.