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, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
• 2 Chr 12:13So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
• 2 Chr 26:13–16And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
• 1 Kgs 14:22–24And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
• Hos 5:10–11The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
• Hos 13:1When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
• Deut 32:18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
• 2 Chr 11:3Speak unto 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 the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
• 2 Kgs 17:19Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
• Deut 6:10–12And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
• 1 Kgs 9:9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
• Hos 13:6–8According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
• 1 Kgs 12:17But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
• Jer 2:31O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
• Deut 8:10–14When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

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