2 Chronicles 11:13-23

13 Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him from all their districts.

Jeroboam Appoints False Priests

14 For 1the Levites left their pasture lands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for 2Jeroboam and his sons had excluded them from serving as priests to the LORD.
15 3He set up priests of his own for the high places, for the satyrs and for the calves which he had made.
16 4Those from all the tribes of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the LORD God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem, to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers.
17 5They 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 Then Rehoboam took as a wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of 6Eliab the son of Jesse,
19 and she bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah and Zaham.
20 After her he took 7Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.
21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. For 8he had taken eighteen * wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight * sons and sixty daughters.
22 9Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.
23 He acted wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the territories of Judah and Benjamin to all the fortified cities, and he gave them food in abundance. And he sought many wives for them.

Cross References 9

  • 1. Numbers 35:2-5
  • 2. 1 Kings 12:28-33; 2 Chronicles 13:9
  • 3. 1 Kings 12:31; 1 Kings 13:33
  • 4. 2 Chronicles 15:9
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 12:1
  • 6. 1 Samuel 16:6
  • 7. 1 Kings 15:2; 2 Chronicles 13:2
  • 8. Deuteronomy 17:17
  • 9. Deuteronomy 21:15-17

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