2 Chronicles 11
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1When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he called together from the house of Judah and Benjamin one hundred and eighty thousand#Or Abi in 2Ki 18:2. choice men to make war and to battle with Israel in order to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
2#2Ch 12:15But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God saying: 3Speak to Rehoboam, son of Solomon and king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, 4“So says the Lord: You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each man must return to his house, for this event is from Me.” So they obeyed the word of the Lord and turned back from attacking Jeroboam.
Rehoboam Secures the Kingdom
5#2Ch 8:2–6So Rehoboam dwelled in Jerusalem and built siege cities in Judah. 6He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, 7#Jos 15:35Beth Zur in the east, Soko, Adullam, 8Gath, Mareshah in the west, Ziph, 9Adoraim, Lachish in the south, Azekah, 10Zorah, Aijalon in the northwest, and central Hebron, all of which were fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin. 11He strengthened the fortresses and set leaders in them with stockpiles of food, oil, and wine. 12And in all the cities he placed shields and spears, and he greatly strengthened these places. So he held Judah and Benjamin.
13And the priests and Levites in all Israel came before him from all their territories. 14#2Ch 13:9; Nu 35:2–5For the Levites left their pasture lands and properties, and they traveled to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons excluded them from serving as priests to the Lord. 15#1Ki 12:28; 12:31And he set for himself priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols that he made. 16#2Ch 15:9And those who set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel followed after them from all the tribes of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers. 17#2Ch 12:1So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.
Rehoboam’s Family
18#1Sa 16:6; 17:13And Rehoboam took Mahalath for a wife, the daughter of both Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse, 19and she bore sons to him: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. 20#2Ch 13:2Then after her he took Maakah the daughter of Absalom. And she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. 21#Dt 17:17And Rehoboam loved Maakah the daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines), and he had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
22#Dt 21:15–17And Rehoboam set Abijah the son of Maakah as chief and head over his brothers for he planned to make him king. 23And he was discerning and spread out all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, even among the fortified cities, and he provided for them an abundance of provisions and wives.
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