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2 Chronicles 10:9-19

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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!
11 'Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.' "
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, "Return to me on the third day."
13 The king answered them harshly, and King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the elders.
14 He spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."
15 So the king did not listen to the people, 1for it was a turn of events from God 2that the LORD might establish His word, which He spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16 When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them the people answered the king, saying, "3What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to your tents, O Israel; Now look after your own house, David." 4So all Israel departed to their tents.
17 But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
18 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was 5over the forced labor, and the sons of Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
19 So 6Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
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2 Chronicles 10:9-19 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. 2 Chronicles 25:16-20
  • 2. 1 Kings 11:29-39
  • 3. 2 Samuel 20:1
  • 4. 2 Chronicles 10:19
  • 5. 1 Kings 4:6; 1 Kings 5:14
  • 6. 1 Kings 12:19

Footnotes 3

  • [a] Lit "spoken"
  • [b] Many mss read "I have made"
  • [c] Lit "with stones that he died"
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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