Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Chronicles 10:16
See to thine own house — When public affairs are in a ferment, violent proceedings do but make ill worse. Many have been driven to the mischief they did not intend, by being too severely dealt with.
See to thine own house — When public affairs are in a ferment, violent proceedings do but make ill worse. Many have been driven to the mischief they did not intend, by being too severely dealt with.
Verse 2 Chronicles 10:16. _TO YOUR TENTS, O ISRAEL_] "To your cities, O Israel." - _Targum_. _NOW, DAVID, SEE TO THINE OWN HOUSE._] "Now, David, rule over the men of thy own house." - _Targum_....
II. THE REBELLION OF THE TEN TRIBES CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Rehoboam made king (2 Chronicles 10:1)_ 2. Jeroboam's return from Egypt and his request (2 Chronicles 10:2) 3. Rehoboam's answer ...
PART IV (2 Chronicles 10-36). THE HISTORY OF JUDAH FROM REHOBOAM TO THE EDICT OF CYRUS. 2 Chronicles 10:1. Rehoboam is Rejected by the Israelites (see notes on 1 Kings 12:1). The variations between t...
SAW. Some codices, with seven early printed editions, read this word "saw", in the text. YOUR TENTS. Primitive text reads "your gods". One of the emendations of the _Sopherim._ See App-33, and compar...
_ALL ISRAEL INTREAT REBOBOAM TO LIGHTEN THE YOKE LAID UPON THEM BY SOLOMON. REHOBOAM, DESPISING THE COURT OF THE OLD MEN, FOLLOWS THAT OF THE YOUNG ONES. TEN TRIBES SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM HIM._ _B...
II. THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM (2 Chronicles 10:1 to 2 Chronicles 36:21) 1. JEROBOAM'S REVOLUTION (Chapter 10) TEXT 2 Chronicles 10:1. And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel
REIGN OF REHOBOAM This chapter is a repetition of 1 Kings 12:1 with slight differences....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ THE TWO *KINGDOMS – 2 CHRONICLES 10:1-11 CHAPTER 10 *Israel separates from Jud...
AND WHEN ALL ISRAEL SAW. — Now _all Israel had seen._ Kings: “And all Israel saw.” The chronicler makes a new start. (The word “saw” is wanting in very many Hebrew MSS., and in LXX., Vulg., and Targ.,...
וְ כָל ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כִּ֠י לֹא ־שָׁמַ֣ע הַ
REHOBOAM AND ABIJAH: THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL 2 Chronicles 10:1; 2 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Chronicles 12:1;...
Despotism is seldom transmissible. That Solomon had been an autocrat and had ruled with a hand of iron under the velvet is evidenced by the words of the men of Israel, "Thy father hath made our yoke g...
_People. Hebrew, "and when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying: What portion have we in David?" (Protestants) --- Dwellings. Many ancient Lat...
If we read this spiritually, and with an eye to Jesus, is not the language of every unawakened man similar to this, We have none inheritance in the son of Jesse. Alas! how was this fulfilled in the in...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10, 11, AND 12. Solomon's faults are not related here for reasons which we have already pointed out; but the history of Rehoboam shows us the immediate fall...
1 Kings 12:16....
And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and [we have] none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man...
_A.M. 3029. B.C. 975._ The people request Rehoboam to ease their grievances, 2 Chronicles 10:1. _Rehoboam, rejecting the old men's counsel, by the advice of the young men, answers them roughly, 2 Chr...
1 The Israelites assembled at Shechem to crowne Rehoboam, by Ieroboam make a suite of relaxation vnto him. 6 Rehoboam, refusing the old mens counsell, by the aduice of yong men, answereth them roughl...
And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, stubbornly refusing to listen to their appeal, THE PEOPLE ANSWERED THE KING, SAYING, WHAT PORTION HAVE WE IN DAVID, the dynasty of Ju...
THE REVOLT OF ISRAEL...
JEROBOAM LEADS A REVOLT (vv.1-18) Rehoboam was inaugurated as king at Shechem. Jereboam who had gone to Egypt for fear of King Solomon, hearing of Solomon's death, returned to Israel. The tribes of...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Chronicles 10:16 Israel H3478 saw H7200 (H8804) king H4428 listen H8085 (H8804) people H5971 answered H77
ISRAEL "Israel," the ten tribes other than Judah and Benjamin, often called "Israel" in distinction from Judah. The division of the kingdom marks an epoch of great importance in the history of the na...
CONTENTS: Accession and folly of Rehoboam. Division of the kingdom. Accession of Jeroboam over Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Ahijah, Hadoram. CONCLUSION: Taking counsel of men who kno...
This chapter is so nearly a repetition of 1 Kings 12., that the reader is referred to the Notes and Reflections on that part of sacred history....
_And Rehoboam went to Shechem._ REHOBOAM A cause so stated must succeed. There will be difficulty, but the end is assured. The reasonable always triumphs, due time being given for the elucidation of...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 10:1 The Kingdom of Judah down to the Exile. After the death of Solomon, and following the division of the nation into north and south, Chronicles deals almost exclus...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 10:16 This rejection of the house of DAVID is in sharp contrast to the declaration of loyalty in 1 Chronicles 12:18
CRITICAL NOTES.] Here begins the fourth part of the book of Chronicles, extending from the division of the kingdom to the decree of Cyrus, authorising the return of the exiles and confining itself to...
EXPOSITION This chapter begins the fourth and last great division of the work once called in its unity, "The Chronicles." This fourth and last division, therefore, will see us to the end of our 2 Chro...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to II Chronicles, chapter 10. The children of Israel have been brought out of Egypt by Moses. Through the leadership of Joshua they were brought into the land that God had...
1 Chronicles 17:14; 1 Corinthians 15:25; 1 Kings 11:13; 1 Kings 11:34;...