Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Chronicles 12:14
Did evil — Or, settled not, although he humbled himself, for a season, yet he quickly relapsed into sin, because his heart was not right with God.
Did evil — Or, settled not, although he humbled himself, for a season, yet he quickly relapsed into sin, because his heart was not right with God.
HE PREPARED NOT HIS HEART ... - See the margin. Rehoboam’s sin was want of earnestness and consistency....
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 C
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...
HE DID EVIL. Compare 1 Kings 14:22. PREPARED, or fixed. Compare Psalms 57:7; Psalms 108:1, and Psalms 112:7....
_he prepared not his heart_ R.V. HE SET NOT HIS HEART. The phrase implies _steady purpose_....
DISCOURSE: 402 THE EVIL OF NEGLECTING PRAYER 2 Chronicles 12:14. _He did eril, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord_. IF we were to judge by the conduct of all around us, we should supp...
2. THE REIGN OF REHOBOAM (11-12) TEXT 2 Chronicles 11:1. And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were...
_AND HE DID EVIL, BECAUSE HE PREPARED NOT HIS HEART TO SEEK THE LORD._ And he did evil - for through the unhappy influence of his mother, a pagan foreigner, he had received in his youth a strong bias...
REIGN OF REHOBOAM (CONCLUDED) This chapter is parallel to 1 Kings 14:21, but supplies additional particulars respecting Shishak's army and the prophet Shemaiah....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 REHOBOAM – 2 CHRONICLES 12:1-16 V1 Rehoboam established his rule as...
AND HE DID EVIL. — Syriac adds _“_before the Lord.” The nature of his evil-doing is explained immediately: “for he directed not his heart to seek Jehovah.” This estimate of Rehoboam’s conduct seems to...
וַ יַּ֖עַשׂ הָ רָ֑ע כִּ֣י לֹ֤א הֵכִין֙
REHOBOAM AND ABIJAH: THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL 2 Chronicles 10:1; 2 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Chronicles 12:1;...
The issue was that Rehoboam "forsook the law of the Lord." The scourge came in the person of Israel's ancient foe, the king of Egypt. The patience of God is ever manifest in His dealing with His peopl...
_Lord, with sincerity, being actuated only by a servile fear. He died impenitent. (Calmet)_...
What a poor trifling, uninteresting character was this man! alas! what can make any character respectable but a life of piety and obedience towards God....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10, 11, AND 12. Solomon's faults are not related here for reasons which we have already pointed out; but the history of Rehoboam shows us the immediate fall...
AND HE DID EVIL,.... Committed idolatry, relapsed into that, his humiliation not being hearty and sincere: BECAUSE HE PREPARED NOT HIS HEART TO SEEK THE LORD; by prayer and supplication, and by an at...
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD. Ver. 14. _Because he prepared not._] Some good resolutions he had, but they were flashy and fleeting: he drew them not into execut...
_He prepared not his heart_, &c. _Directed not_, or _settled not,_ &c. That is, although he humbled himself, and seemed penitent for a season, and professed the true religion and worship of God; yet h...
1 Rehoboam forsaking the LORD, is punished by Shishak. 5 He and the Princes repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah, are deliuered from destruction, but not from spoile. 13 The reigne and death of Re...
And he did evil, that was the general impression of his reign, BECAUSE HE PREPARED NOT HIS HEART TO SEEK THE LORD, he did not adhere with all strictness and with unvarying sincerity to the reformation...
EGYPT ATTACKS JUDAH (vv.1-9) Rehoboam's prosperity however became his downfall. When he strengthened himself in his kingdom sufficiently to think himself secure, he gave up any regard he had for the...
PREPARED: Or, fixed...
PREPARED NOT, or _directed not_, or _settled not_, &c, i.e. although he humbled himself, and seemed penitent for a season, and professed the true religion and worship of God; yet he quickly relapsed i...
2 Chronicles 12:14 did H6213 (H8799) evil H7451 prepare H3559 (H8689) heart H3820 seek H1875 (H8800) LO
2 Chronicles 12:14 Religion is not a matter that can be taken up in a loose, careless, slipshod manner. It claims the whole purpose and energy of the heart, and only then will it prove a blessing and...
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._ He was not able to endure t...
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, b...
CONTENTS: Rehoboam defeated by Shishak. Death of Rehoboam. CHARACTERS: God, Rehoboam, Shishak, Shemaiah. CONCLUSION: It becomes us, when we are under the rebukes of providence, to justify God (2 Chro...
2 Chronicles 12:1. _Rehoboam forsook the law of the Lord._ His juvenile council, his harem of eighteen queens and sixty concubines, are lamentable proofs of the imbecility of his mind. The apple-tree...
_He prepared not his heart to seek the Lord._ REHOBOAM THE UNREADY I. He did not begin life with seeking the Lord. II. He showed no heart in seeking the Lord afterwards. III. He was not fixed and...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 12:14 Whereas 1 Kings 14:22 blames the people for “doing evil,” the Chronicler makes this charge against Rehoboam and adds that he di
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter parallel with 1 Kings 14:21, but considerably enlarges the narrative contained in that passage. The account of Shishak’s chariots and horsemen, the composition of his arm...
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...
It came to pass [chapter twelve], when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him (2 Chronicles 12:1). As the king goes...
1 Chronicles 29:18; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 1 Samuel 7:3;...