_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN REHOBOAM HAD ESTABLISHED THE KINGDOM, AND HAD STRENGTHENED HIMSELF, HE FORSOOK THE LAW OF THE LORD, AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM._ When Rehoboam ... had strengthened himself - (see the note at 2 Chronicles 11:17.) During the first three years of his reign his royal influence w... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF KING REHOBOAM SHISHAK KING OF EGYPT CAME UP AGAINST JERUSALEM, BECAUSE THEY HAD TRANSGRESSED AGAINST THE LORD,_ Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He was the first king of the 22nd or Bubastic dynasty, which, after the of Thebes from the... [ Continue Reading ]
_WITH TWELVE HUNDRED CHARIOTS, AND THREESCORE THOUSAND HORSEMEN: AND THE PEOPLE WERE WITHOUT NUMBER THAT CAME WITH HIM OUT OF EGYPT; THE LUBIMS, THE SUKKIIMS, AND THE ETHIOPIANS._ The Lubims - the Libyans of northeastern Africa. THE SUKKIIMS. Some think these were the Scenite Arabs, dwellers in t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TOOK THE FENCED CITIES WHICH PERTAINED TO JUDAH, AND CAME TO JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREUPON THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL AND THE KING HUMBLED THEMSELVES; AND THEY SAID, THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS._ The princes of Israel - (cf. 2 Chronicles 12:5, "the princes of Judah.")... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE LORD SAW THAT THEY HUMBLED THEMSELVES, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO SHEMAIAH, SAYING, THEY HAVE HUMBLED THEMSELVES; THEREFORE I WILL NOT DESTROY THEM, BUT I WILL GRANT THEM SOME DELIVERANCE; AND MY WRATH SHALL NOT BE POURED OUT UPON JERUSALEM BY THE HAND OF SHISHAK._ When the Lord saw... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS THEY SHALL BE HIS SERVANTS; THAT THEY MAY KNOW MY SERVICE, AND THE SERVICE OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE COUNTRIES._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SHISHAK KING OF EGYPT CAME UP AGAINST JERUSALEM, AND TOOK AWAY THE TREASURES OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND THE TREASURES OF THE KING'S HOUSE; HE TOOK ALL: HE CARRIED AWAY ALSO THE SHIELDS OF GOLD WHICH SOLOMON HAD MADE._ So Shishak ... came up against Jerusalem. After the parenthetical clause ... [ Continue Reading ]
_INSTEAD OF WHICH KING REHOBOAM MADE SHIELDS OF BRASS, AND COMMITTED THEM TO THE HANDS OF THE CHIEF OF THE GUARD, THAT KEPT THE ENTRANCE OF THE KING'S HOUSE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE HUMBLED HIMSELF, THE WRATH OF THE LORD TURNED FROM HIM, THAT HE WOULD NOT DESTROY HIM ALTOGETHER: AND ALSO IN JUDAH THINGS WENT WELL._ When he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him. The promise contained in 2 Chronicles 12:7 was verified. Divine Providence preserved th... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO 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... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID EVIL, BECAUSE HE PREPARED NOT HIS HEART TO SEEK THE LORD._ And he did evil - for through the unhappy influence of his mother, a pagan foreigner, he had received in his youth a strong bias toward idolatry (see the notes at 1 Kings 14:21).... [ Continue Reading ]