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2 Chronicles 10:1-10

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Rehoboam's Reign of Folly

1 1Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
2 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for 2he was in Egypt where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon ), Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
3 So they sent and summoned him. When Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
4 "Your father made our 3yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you."
5 He said to them, "Return to me again in three days." So the people departed.
6 Then King Rehoboam 4consulted with the elders who had served * his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer * this people?"
7 They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be kind to this people and please them and 5speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever *."
8 But he 6forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served * him.
9 So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer * this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?"
10 The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.' Thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins!
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2 Chronicles 10:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 10

This chapter is not only in sense the same, but is expressed almost in the selfsame words as First Kings chapter twelve, verses one through nineteen, so there needs not anything to be added to the notes there, which the reader is referred to.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 6

  • 1. 1 Kings 12:1-20
  • 2. 1 Kings 11:40
  • 3. 1 Kings 5:13-16
  • 4. Job 8:8, 9; Job 32:7
  • 5. Proverbs 15:1
  • 6. 2 Samuel 17:14; Proverbs 13:20

Footnotes 2

  • [a] Lit "stood before"
  • [b] Lit "who stood before"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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