gltv - 2Chronicles:10-13

gltv@2Chronicles:10:1 @ And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:2 @ And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard, he being in Egypt because he had fled from the face of Solomon the king, Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:3 @ And they sent and called for him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

gltv@2Chronicles:10:4 @ Your father made our yoke hard; and now lighten the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we shall serve you.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:5 @ And he said to them, Come again to me in three days; and the people left.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:6 @ And king Rehoboam consulted with the aged men who had stood before his father Solomon when he was alive, saying, How do you advise to answer this people a word?

gltv@2Chronicles:10:7 @ And they spoke to him, saying, If you will be good to this people, and will please them, and will speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:8 @ But he left the counsel of the aged men who had advised him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, those standing before him.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:9 @ And he said to them, What do you advise that we shall answer this people that have spoken to me, saying, Lighten the yoke that your father put on us?

gltv@2Chronicles:10:10 @ And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, You shall say this to the people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and you lighten our yoke, this you shall say to them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father;

gltv@2Chronicles:10:11 @ and now, my father laid a heavy yoke on you, and I will surely add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I with scorpions.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:12 @ And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king commanded, saying, Return to me on the third day.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:13 @ And the king answered them sharply, and king Rehoboam left the counsel of the aged men,

gltv@2Chronicles:10:14 @ and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will surely add to it; my father chastised you with whips, and I with scorpions.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:15 @ And the king did not listen to the people, for the revolution was from God, so that Jehovah might establish His word that He spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:16 @ And all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, and the people sent back to the king, saying, What part do we have in David? Yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each to your tents, O Israel! Now see to your house, David! And all Israel went to their tents.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:17 @ As to the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:18 @ And king Rehoboam sent Hadoram who was over the forced labor. And the sons of Israel threw stones at him, and he died. And king Rehoboam was alerted to mount up into a chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

gltv@2Chronicles:10:19 @ And Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:1 @ And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and called up the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight with Israel, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:2 @ And the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah, a man of God, saying,

gltv@2Chronicles:11:3 @ Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon the king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

gltv@2Chronicles:11:4 @ So says Jehovah, You shall not go up, nor fight with your brothers. Each return to his house, for this thing has come from Me. And they heard the words of Jehovah, and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:5 @ And Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:6 @ And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

gltv@2Chronicles:11:7 @ and Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

gltv@2Chronicles:11:8 @ and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

gltv@2Chronicles:11:9 @ and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

gltv@2Chronicles:11:10 @ and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron. These were in Judah and in Benjamin as cities of defense.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:11 @ And he made the strongholds stronger, and put commanders in them, and treasures of food and oil and wine.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:12 @ And he put in every city shields and spears, and made them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:13 @ And the priests and the Levites in all Israel stationed themselves by him, out of all their territory.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:14 @ For the Levites had abandoned their pasture land and their property. And they came to Judah and to Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from acting as priests to Jehovah.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:15 @ And he made stand priests for himself for the high places, and for goats, and for the calves that he made.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:16 @ And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who gave their heart to seek Jehovah the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:17 @ And they made the kingdom of Judah stronger, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon stronger, for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:18 @ And Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David; Abihail the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:19 @ And she bore to him sons: Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:20 @ And after her, he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:21 @ And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines (for he had taken eighteen wives, and sixty concubines; and he fathered twenty eight sons and sixty daughters).

gltv@2Chronicles:11:22 @ And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maachah the head, as ruler among his brothers, in order to cause him to reign.

gltv@2Chronicles:11:23 @ And he had understanding, and spread out all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the cities of defense, and gave them provision in abundance. And he demanded a multitude of wives.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:1 @ And it happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was settled, and when he was strong, he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:2 @ And it happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Egypt came against Jerusalem because they had acted unfaithfully against Jehovah.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:3 @ He came with a thousand and two hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen. And there was no counting the people who came with him out of Egypt: Lubim, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:4 @ And he captured the cities of defense in Judah and came to Jerusalem.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:5 @ And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered to Jerusalem from the face of Shishak. And he said to them, So says Jehovah, You have forsaken Me; and I also have forsaken you in the hand of Shishak.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:6 @ And the leaders of Israel and the king were humbled. And they said, Jehovah is righteous.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:7 @ And when Jehovah saw that they were humbled, the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah, saying, They have been humbled. I will not destroy them, and I will give to them a little deliverance. And I will not pour out My fury on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:8 @ But they shall become his servants, and they shall know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:9 @ And Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house. He took all, and he took the golden shields that Solomon had made.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:10 @ And king Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and deposited them into the hand of the chiefs of the runners who kept the gate of the king's house.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:11 @ And it happened, from the time the king went to the house of Jehovah, the runners came in and lifted them up, and brought them back to the guard room.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:12 @ And when he was humbled, the wrath of Jehovah turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely. And also good things were found in Judah.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:13 @ And king Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem, and reigned. For Rehoboam was a son of forty one years when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah had chosen to put His name there, out of all the tribes of Israel. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:14 @ And he did the evil, for he had not resolved in his heart to seek Jehovah.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:15 @ And the acts of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer as to genealogy? And the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam lasted all their days.

gltv@2Chronicles:12:16 @ And Rehoboam lay with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:1 @ In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:2 @ He reigned three years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel, from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:3 @ And Abijah joined the battle with an army of mighty men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men. And Jeroboam had set the battle in order with him, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty men of valor.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:4 @ And Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim in the hills of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:5 @ Do you not know that Jehovah the God of Israel has given the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons, a covenant of salt?

gltv@2Chronicles:13:6 @ And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Solomon's servant, the son of David has risen up and rebelled against his lord.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:7 @ And vain men gathered to him, sons of worthlessness, and they made themselves strong against Rehoboam the son of Solomon; and Rehoboam was a youth and tender of heart, and could not be strong against them.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:8 @ And now you think to be strong against the kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David And you are a great host; yea, with you are calves of gold that Jeroboam has made as gods to you.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:9 @ Have you not thrown out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made priests to yourselves like the peoples of the lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a bullock, a son of the herd, and seven rams, even he becomes a priest to no gods.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:10 @ As for us, Jehovah is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; yea, priests are serving Jehovah, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, in the work,

gltv@2Chronicles:13:11 @ and are offering to Jehovah burnt offerings morning by morning, and evening by evening, and sweet incense, and the Bread of Arrangement on the pure table, and the golden lampstand and its lamps, to burn evening by evening. For we are keeping the charge of Jehovah our God. And surely you have forsaken Him.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:12 @ And, behold, God is with us at our head, and His priests, and the trumpets, the signal to sound for battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight with Jehovah, the God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:13 @ But Jeroboam had made the ambush circle to come in behind them, and they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:14 @ And Judah turned. And, behold, the battle was against them before and behind. And they cried to Jehovah, and the priests were blowing with trumpets.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:15 @ And the men of Judah shouted. And it was, at the shouting of the men of Judah, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:16 @ And the sons of Israel fled from the face of Judah, and God gave them into their hand.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:17 @ And Abijah and his people struck them with a great blow, and five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell slain.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:18 @ And the sons of Israel were humbled at that time, and the sons of Judah were strong. For they leaned on Jehovah the God of their fathers.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:19 @ And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured cities from him: Bethel and its villages, and Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephrain and its villages.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:20 @ And Jeroboam did not regain power any more in Abijah's days. And Jehovah struck him, and he died.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:21 @ And Abijah became mighty, and he took fourteen wives to himself. And he fathered twenty two sons and sixteen daughters.

gltv@2Chronicles:13:22 @ And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his words, are written in the inquiry of the prophet Iddo.

gltv@2Chronicles:14:1 @ And Abijah lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.