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 supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.
• 2 Chr 12:13Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
• 2 Chr 26:13–16Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.
• 1 Kgs 14:22–24And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
• Hos 5:10–11The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.
• Hos 13:1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.
• Deut 32:18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
• 2 Chr 11:3“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin
• Mic 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
• 2 Kgs 17:19and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
• Deut 6:10–12And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
• 1 Kgs 9:9And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
• Hos 13:6–8When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
• 1 Kgs 12:17but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
• Jer 2:31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
• Deut 8:10–14When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

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