2 Chronicles 12:1

Once established and strong, Rehoboam abandons the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him. Prosperity leads to spiritual complacency and apostasy.

Cross-references · 17

• 2 Chr 11:17So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.
• 2 Chr 12:13So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
• 2 Chr 26:13–16Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
• 1 Kgs 14:22–24Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
• Hos 5:10–11The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
• Hos 13:1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.
• Deut 32:18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
• 2 Chr 11:3“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
• Mic 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”
• 2 Kgs 17:19Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
• Deut 6:10–12It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,
• 1 Kgs 9:9and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”
• Hos 13:6–8According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
• 1 Kgs 12:17But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
• Jer 2:31Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
• Deut 8:10–14You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

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