am 3029-3046, bc 975-958
for Rehoboam: 2 Chronicles 13:7; 1 Kings 14:21
the city: 2 Chronicles 6:6; Psalms 48:1-3, Psalms 78:68-69
an Ammonitess: Deuteronomy 23:3; 1 Kings 11:1; Nehemiah 13:1, Nehemiah 13:26
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2 Chronicles 12:13
2 Chronicles 12:13
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2 Chronicles 12 — Overview2 Chronicles 12 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter gives us a more full account of the reign of Rehoboam than
we had before in Kings and it is a very melancholy account. Methinks we
are in the book of Judges again; for, I. Rehoboam and his people did…2 Chronicles 12 — Overview2 Chronicles 12 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledge2 Chronicles 12:1, Rehoboam, forsaking the Lord, is punished by Shishak; 2 Chronicles 12:5, He and the princes, repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah, are delivered from destruction, but not from spoil; 2 Chronicles…2 Chronicles 12 — Overview2 Chronicles 12 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleRehoboam and his people forsaking the law of the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt is allowed by God to invade his land, and take his fenced cities, 2Ch 12:1, upon which a prophet of the Lord was sent to him and his princes,…2 Chronicles 12:13-162 Chronicles 12:13-16 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe story of Rehoboam's reign is here concluded, much as the story of
the other reigns concludes. Two things especially are observable
here:--1. That he was at length pretty well fixed in his kingdom, v.
13.…2 Chronicles 12:132 Chronicles 12:13 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleSo 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 this was in his fifth…