2 Chronicles 11:1-23

Shemaiah Restrains Rehoboam from Attacking Jeroboam (see notes on 1 Kings 12:21). The variations between the two records are unimportant.

2 Chronicles 11:5. Rehoboam Establishes himself in Jerusalem. There is nothing corresponding to this section in 1 K.

2 Chronicles 11:5. Rehoboam's cities of defence. Although these are not enumerated in 1 K. there is no reason to doubt that the Chronicler got the list of them from an authentic source.

2 Chronicles 11:13. This account of how the priests and Levites joined Rehoboam was probably inserted by the Chronicler, who would naturally assume that Yahweh's ministers would follow Rehoboam as king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 11:18. These details of Rehoboam's wives and family probably come from some reliable source; they are not given in 1 K.