Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Chronicles 10:7
If thou be kind, &c. — Moderate counsels are generally best. Gentleness will do what violence will not do. Good words cost nothing but a little self — denial, and yet they purchase great things.
If thou be kind, &c. — Moderate counsels are generally best. Gentleness will do what violence will not do. Good words cost nothing but a little self — denial, and yet they purchase great things.
The narrative of Kings (marginal reference) is repeated with only slight verbal differences....
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...
_if thou be kind to this people, and please them_ The Chronicler has softened the forcible words of the parallel passage (1 Kings 12:7), "If thou wilt be a _servant_unto this people this day, and wilt...
_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
_AND THEY SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, IF THOU BE KIND TO THIS PEOPLE, AND PLEASE THEM, AND SPEAK GOOD WORDS TO THEM, THEY WILL BE THY SERVANTS FOR EVER._ If thou be kind to this people, and please them,...
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...
IF THOU BE KIND TO THIS PEOPLE. — A free paraphrase of, “If _to-day_ thou become _a servant_ to this people and _serve_ them” (Kings) — words which may have seemed inappropriate to the redactor, in co...
וַ יְדַבְּר֨וּ אֵלָ֜יו לֵ אמֹ֗ר אִם ־תִּֽהְיֶ
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...
_Please. 3 Kings xii., "serve." By a little condescension, thou mayst establish thy throne. (Calmet) --- The people did not complain, till they saw the riches of the nation wasted on wicked women (Tir...
I have purposely gone through all these verses in one reading before that I offered any Commentary upon them in order to come to this last verse, which explains the whole; the cause was of God. It is...
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 12:7....
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever. Ver. 7. _If thou be kind to this people._] "If thou...
_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 they, out of the fullness of their ripe experience, SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, IF THOU BE KIND TO THIS PEOPLE, AND PLEASE THEM, AND SPEAK GOOD WORDS TO THEM, THEY WILL BE THY SERVANTS FOR EVER. It is...
The Demand of the Northern Tribes....
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 10:7 spoke H1696 (H8762) saying H559 (H8800) kind H2896 people H5971 please H7521 (H8804) spea
2 Chronicles 10:7 _(with 2 Chronicles 10:11)_ This incident illustrates the two modes of treating men the conciliatory and the unconciliatory. The principle applies to all men in some of the relation...
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 10:7 SPEAK GOOD WORDS appears to mean “make an agreement” (see 2 Kings 25:28)....
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 Kings 12:7; 2 Samuel 15:2; Genesis 49:21; Proverbs 15:1...