2 Chronicles 13:7

Abijah says worthless men gathered to Jeroboam and overpowered the young, inexperienced Rehoboam. He blames the division on rebels exploiting a weak king.

Cross-references · 19

• 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.
• Judg 9:4So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
• Heb 5:12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
• Acts 17:5The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
• 1 Kgs 21:13And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
• Prov 28:19The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
• 2 Chr 11:1–4When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
• Titus 1:10For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,
• 2 Chr 10:16When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
• Job 30:8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
• Eccl 10:16Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
• Judg 11:3So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.
• Isa 3:4“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”
• Ps 26:4I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
• 1 Kgs 21:10But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
• 1 Sam 22:2And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
• Prov 12:11The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
• Deut 13:13that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

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