| 1 | When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. | 1Ki 12:21 |
| 2 | But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, | 2Ch 12:5 2Ch 12:7 2Ch 12:15 1Ki 12:22-24 |
| 3 | Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, | Gn 49:28 Ex 24:4 2Ki 17:34 Php 3:5 Rev 7:4-8 |
| 4 | Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam. | Gn 13:8 2Sa 2:26 Ac 7:26 1Co 6:5-8 Heb 13:1 1Pe 3:8 1Jn 3:11-13 |
| 5 | Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah. | 2Ch 8:2-6 2Ch 14:6 2Ch 14:7 2Ch 16:6 2Ch 17:12 2Ch 26:6 2Ch 27:4 Isa 22:8-11 |
| 6 | He built Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, | Gn 35:19 1Sa 17:12 Mt 2:5 Mt 2:6 |
| 7 | Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam, | Jsh 15:58 |
| 8 | and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, | 1Ch 18:1 |
| 9 | and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, | 2Ch 32:9 Jsh 10:5 Jsh 10:11 Jsh 15:35 Jsh 15:39 |
| 10 | and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities. | Jsh 15:33 |
| 11 | He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of victuals, and oil and wine. | Isa 22:10 Isa 22:11 |
| 12 | In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him. | 2Ch 26:14 2Ch 26:15 2Ch 32:5 2Sa 13:19 2Sa 13:22 |
| 13 | The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border. |
| 14 | For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest`s office to Yahweh; | Nm 35:2-5 Jsh 21:20-42 1Ch 6:66-81 |
| 15 | and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made. | Dt 32:17 1Co 10:20 1Co 10:21 1Ti 4:1 Rev 16:14 |
| 16 | After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. | 2Ch 15:9 2Ch 30:11 2Ch 30:18 2Ch 30:19 Jsh 22:19 Ps 84:5-7 |
| 17 | So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon. | 2Ch 12:1 |
| 18 | Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse; | 1Sa 16:6 1Sa 17:13 1Sa 17:28 1Ch 2:13 1Ch 27:18 |
| 19 | and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham. |
| 20 | After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. | 2Ch 11:21 2Ch 13:2 |
| 21 | Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.) | 2Ch 11:23 Dt 17:17 Jg 8:30 2Sa 3:2-5 2Sa 5:13 1Ki 11:3 1Ch 3:1-9 So 6:8 So 6:9 |
| 22 | Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, [even] the prince among his brothers; for [he was minded] to make him king. | Dt 21:15-17 1Ch 5:1 1Ch 5:2 1Ch 29:1 |
| 23 | He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them victuals in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives. | 2Ch 10:8-15 Lk 16:8 |
