2 Chronicles 12:6

_WHEREUPON THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL AND THE KING HUMBLED THEMSELVES; AND THEY SAID, THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS._ The princes of Israel - (cf. 2 Chronicles 12:5, "the princes of Judah.")...

Verse 2 Chronicles 12:6. _WHEREUPON THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL AND THE KING HUMBLED_ _THEMSELVES_] This is not mentioned in the parallel place, 1 Kings 14:25-11: this was the sole reason why Jerusalem was not at this time _totally_ destroyed, and the house of David entirely cut off; for they were totally incapable of defending themselves against this innumerable host....

THEY SAID, THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS - i. e., they acknowledged the justice of the sentence which had gone forth against them 2 Chronicles 12:5....

EXPOSITION This chapter finishes for us the history of Rehoboam, his "acts" and his character; and, with the preceding two chapters, it may be counted among the masterpieces of Scripture biography. In so short a compass, how well marked, how distinctly limned, are the features of the man! The name of Rehoboam is, undoubtedly, one of the more important, if not taking rank among the most important, of Scripture, and no one can rise from the study of the fifty-eight verses of these three chapters without a very satisfactory conception of the man Rehoboam and what he was. It will be seen from the language of the second verse, compared with 2 Chronicles 11:17, that, roughly speaking, this chapter stretches over the last sad and evil twelve of the whole seventeen years of Rehoboam's reign. This, however, does not negative the possibility of the anticipation in...

WHEREUPON THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL AND THE KING HUMBLED THEMSELVES,.... Both by words acknowledging their sins, and the justice of God, and by deeds, perhaps putting on sackcloth, as was usual on such occasions, and betaking themselves to fasting and prayer: AND THEY SAID, THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS; in giving them up into the hand of their enemies, seeing they had forsaken him, and sinned against him....

2 Chronicles 12:1. _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._ They prospered, at first, by adhering to Jehovah. The good people out of the neighbouring land of Israel emigrated to them, strengthening them but, as soon as they grew strong, they forsook the law of Jehovah. 2 Chronicles 12:2. _And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,_ Shishak did not know that fact, nor did he care about Jehovah. God so ruled in providence that, when his people cast him off, he soon found a rod with which to chasten them. The king of Egypt dete

CHAPTER 12 REHOBOAM'S APOSTASY, PUNISHMENT, AND DEATH _ 1. Rehoboam's apostasy (2 Chronicles 12:1)_ 2. Punishment through Shishak (2 Chronicles 12:2) 3. Death of Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 12:13) The kingdom had been established; Rehoboam had strengthened himself and lived in the indulgence of the flesh. Then followed the awful plunge into apostasy. “He forsook the law of the Lord and all Israel with him.” Idolatry in the high places and under every green tree was established and fostered by him. “And there were also Sodomites in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel” ...

SHISHAK INVADES JUDAH; SUMMARY OF REHOBOAM'S REIGN; HIS DEATH (see notes on 1 Kings 14:21 f., 1 Kings 14:25; 1 Kings 14:29). The words in 2 Chronicles 12:2_ b_ (because they had trespassed.) to the end of 2 Chronicles 12:8, which do not figure in 1 K., are regarded by many commentators as a _midrash_ (see note on 2 Chronicles 13:22) which the Chronicler either wrote himself or incorporated from some source to which he

PRINCES OF ISRAEL. See note on 1 Kings 12:17. ISRAEL.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34) reads "Judah", as well as in 1Ch 22:17. 1 Chronicles 23:2. Otherwise "Israel" is put for "Judah"....

_Whereupon_ R.V. THEN. _princes of Israel_ Called "princes of Judah" in 2 Chronicles 12:5; cp. note on 2 Chronicles 11:3. _humbled themselves_ i.e. they fasted and put on sackcloth; cp. 1 Kings 21:27; 1 Kings 21:29. _The Lord_is _righteous_ Cp. Pharaoh's confession (Exodus 9:27), and the Psalmist's address to God, "That thou mayest be justified (lit. "mayest be righteous") when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest" ...