2 Chronicles 10:1

_AND REHOBOAM WENT TO SHECHEM: FOR TO SHECHEM WERE ALL ISRAEL COME TO MAKE HIM KING._ Rehoboam went to Shechem - (see the note at 1 Kings 12:1.) This chapter is, with a few verbal alterations, the same as in that book....

CHAPTER X _The people apply to Rehoboam to ease them of their burdens_, 1-4. _Rejecting the advice of the aged counsellors, and following that_ _of the young men, he gives them an ungracious answer_, 5-14. _The people are discouraged, and ten tribes revolt_, 15-17. _They stone Hadoram, who went to collect the tribute; and_ _Rehoboam but barely escapes_, 18, 19. NOTES ON CHAP. X Verse 2 Chronicles 10:1. _REHOBOAM WENT TO SHECHEM_] This chapter is almost word for word the same as...

The narrative of Kings (marginal reference) is repeated with only slight verbal differences....

EXPOSITION This chapter begins the fourth and last great division of the work once called in its unity, "The Chronicles." This fourth and last division, therefore, will see us to the end of our 2 Chronicles 36:1; where we find, by an historical anticipation of above fifty years, the memorable proclamation of Cyrus, which authorized the return of the captive Jews, and sanctioned the rebuilding of the temple. This stretch of history, divided in our Authorized Version into twenty-seven chapters, covers, therefore, a period of about four hundred and fifty years; it ignores almost totally the career of Israel, and, in clearest accord with its post-captive and prophetic objects, abides uninterruptedly by that of the sacred dynasty of Judah. The kings are in number twenty, beginning with Rehoboam, ending with Zedekiah, of whom, however, the last four can be credited with

1 Kings 12:1....

II. THE REBELLION OF THE TEN TRIBES CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Rehoboam made king (2 Chronicles 10:1)_ 2. Jeroboam's return from Egypt and his request (2 Chronicles 10:2) 3. Rehoboam's answer (2 Chronicles 10:6) 4. The revolt and Rehoboam's flight (2 Chronicles 10:16) What followed Solomon's fall when he turned away from the Lord, who so graciously had appeared unto him twice, is unrecorded in the Chronicles. 1 Kings 11:9 contains these events. Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, h

PART IV (2 Chronicles 10-36). THE HISTORY OF JUDAH FROM REHOBOAM TO THE EDICT OF CYRUS. 2 Chronicles 10:1. Rehoboam is Rejected by the Israelites (see notes on 1 Kings 12:1). The variations between the two records are unimportant....

REHOBOAM WENT. Compare 1 Kings 12:1. ALL. "All" put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole) for the greater part or representatives....

2 Chronicles 10:1-15 (1 Kings 12:1-15). The Conference at Shechem 1. _Shechem_ Chosen for its central position, for it is in the heart of Western Palestine....

_ALL ISRAEL INTREAT REBOBOAM TO LIGHTEN THE YOKE LAID UPON THEM BY SOLOMON. REHOBOAM, DESPISING THE COURT OF THE OLD MEN, FOLLOWS THAT OF THE YOUNG ONES. TEN TRIBES SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM HIM._ _Before Christ 975._ REFLECTIONS.—1st, After what has been said on this chapter in 1 Kings 12 we have only to add, (1.) That men are readier to complain of the least expence which the wants of government call for, than to acknowledge how much indebted they are for the mercies and protection that they enjoy. (2.) Young heads are too hot to be wise counsellors. (3.) A soft answer disarms those whom opposition makes only more furious. 2nd, The ill effects of Rehoboam's severity appear in the revolt of the ten tribes. They who drive too furiously overturn themselves. He rejected good advice, and deserved to be given up to his folly. God's counsel thus was fulfilled, though