2 Chronicles 12 - Introduction
_REHOBOAM, FORSAKING GOD, IS DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF SHISHAK, KING OF EGYPT. HE DIES, AND IS SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON ABIJAH._ _Before Christ 972._... [ Continue Reading ]
_REHOBOAM, FORSAKING GOD, IS DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF SHISHAK, KING OF EGYPT. HE DIES, AND IS SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON ABIJAH._ _Before Christ 972._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LUBIMS, THE SUKKIIMS— The _Lubims_ were a people of _Lybia,_ which adjoined to Egypt, and are sometimes in Scripture called _Phut,_ and sometimes _Lubims,_ from the Arabic word _Lub,_ which signifies _dry_ or _thirsty,_ as was the land which they inhabited. The _Sukkiims_ were the people called... [ Continue Reading ]
REHOBOAM WAS ONE-AND-FORTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN— _Was sixteen years old._ Houbigant. As also in the parallel place of Kings.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONCERNING GENEALOGIES? AND THERE WERE WARS, &C.— _In which the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam are related._ Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Short was the gleam of sunshine which brightened the first years of Rehoboam's government. 1. He forsook the law of God, and Judah followed his example. Their si... [ Continue Reading ]