Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
2 Chronicles 12:13
Rehoboam was one-and-forty years old when he began to reign— Was sixteen years old. Houbigant. As also in the parallel place of Kings.
Rehoboam was one-and-forty years old when he began to reign— Was sixteen years old. Houbigant. As also in the parallel place of Kings.
Verse 2 Chronicles 12:13. WAS _ONE AND FORTY YEARS OLD_] _Houbigant_ thinks he was but _sixteen_ years old when he began to reign; and brings many and forcible arguments to prove that the number _for...
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...
HAD CHOSEN. Compare 2 Chronicles 6:6 and 1 Kings 12:25. AN. the....
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...
_SO KING REHOBOAM STRENGTHENED HIMSELF IN JERUSALEM, AND REIGNED: FOR REHOBOAM WAS ONE AND FORTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED SEVENTEEN YEARS IN JERUSALEM, THE CITY WHICH THE LORD...
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...
(_b_) SUMMING UP OF THE REIGN (2 Chronicles 12:13). (Comp. 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 14:29; 1 Kings 14:31.) Th
וַ יִּתְחַזֵּ֞ק הַ מֶּ֧לֶךְ רְחַבְעָ֛ם בִּ יר
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...
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned (g) seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the...
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...
SO REHOBOAM STRENGTHENED HIMSELF IN JERUSALEM,.... Fortified that yet more for the defence of himself, after Shishak departed: AND REIGNED; twelve years more, for he reigned in all seventeen, and thi...
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD...
_King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem_ He recovered so much strength that he reigned with some authority: or, finding that his fenced cities of Judah did not answer his expectation, he now...
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...
So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, having repented of his sins, he could clear his land of the invaders in the course of time, AND REIGNED; FOR REHOBOAM WAS ONE AND FORTY YEARS OLD WH...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Chronicles 12:13 Rehoboam H7346 H4428 strengthened H2388 (H8691) Jerusalem H3389 reigned H4427 (H8799) Rehoboam...
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...
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 Kings 11:1; 1 Kings 14:21; 2 Chronicles 13:7; 2 Chronicles 6:6;...