Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

1 Kings 14

21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. z Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city a which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. b His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. 22 c Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they d provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built for themselves e high 1 places, f sacred pillars, and g wooden images on every high hill and h under every green tree. 24 i And there were also 2 perverted persons 3 in the land. They did according to all the j abominations of the nations which the LORD had cast out before the children of k Israel.

25 l It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 m And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields n which Solomon had made. 27 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and 4 committed them to the hands of the captains of the 5 guard, who guarded the doorway of the king's house. 28 And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.

29 o Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30 And there was p war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 31 q So Rehoboam 6 rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. r His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then s Abijam 7 his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:13
    Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:32
    (but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel).
    1 Kings 11:36
    And to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:31
    So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then Abijam his son reigned in his place.
  4. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:1
    Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel along with him.
    2 Chronicles 12:14
    And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:21
    They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
    Psalms 78:58
    For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
    1 Corinthians 10:22
    Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:2
    You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
    Ezekiel 16:24
    That you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
    Ezekiel 16:25
    You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 16:22
    You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
  8. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:9
    Also the children of Israel secretly did against the LORD their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.
    2 Kings 17:10
    They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 57:5
    Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?
    Jeremiah 2:20
    For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
  10. Cross References
    Genesis 19:5
    And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.
    Deuteronomy 23:17
    There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel.
    1 Kings 15:12
    And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
    1 Kings 22:46
    And the rest of the perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land.
    2 Kings 23:7
    Then he tore down the ritual booths of the perverted persons that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the wooden image.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 20:18
    Lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you sin against the LORD your God.
  12. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:4
    Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you.
    Deuteronomy 9:5
    It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  13. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:40
    Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
    2 Chronicles 12:2
    And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD.
  14. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:18
    Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to BenHadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying.
    2 Chronicles 12:9 - 11
    So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took everything. He also carried away the gold shields which Solomon had made.
  15. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:17
    He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  16. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:15
    The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
    2 Chronicles 12:16
    So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.
  17. Cross References
    1 Kings 12:21 - 24
    And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, that he might restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
    1 Kings 15:6
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
  18. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:16
    So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.
  19. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:21
    And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
  20. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:16
    So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.
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