04/01/2025 – Day 276 – 2 Chronicles – Chapters 10 -14 / Chapters 10 – 12 – Rehoboam, king of Judah. 933 – 916. Summary commentary from “Halley’s Bible Handbook.”
If I haven’t mentioned it yet, 2 Chronicles covers basically the same ground as Kings 1 & II, except 2 Chronicles omits the narratives about the kings of the seceded Ten Tribes.
I am going to share some excerpts with y’all, the summary commentary from Chapters 10-12 from “Halley’s Bible Handbook”:
” Rehoboam – Son of Solomon. Reigned 17 years. (Told also in 1 Kings 12,13,14). Under his reign the magnificent kingdom of Solomon took a plunge from its pinnacle of glory. Ten Tribes, out of the Twelve, seceded from his kingdom, and Shishak, king of Egypt, plundered Jerusalem (12: 2-9).
ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTE: Shishak’s Invasion of Judah.
Shishaks own record of this campaign is inscribed on the south wall of the great Temple of Amon at Karnak, in which he is depicted as presenting 156 cities of Palestine to this god Amon. A layer of ashes from his burning of Kiribati-sepher has been uncovered. Also a fragment of a monument he set up in Megiddo. Shishak’s Mummy was found (1939) at Tanis, in a sarcophagus of silver encased in solid gold, possibly some of Solomon’s gold which he had taken from Jerusalem.”
And, I’ll carry on with the summary commentary for Chapters 13 & 14 as well:
Chapter 13. Abijah (Abijam), king of Judah. 915 – 913 B.C.
“Reigned 3 years. (Told also in 1 Kings 15 1-8.). Wicked, like his father. But, in battle with Jeroboam, he ‘relied upon the Lord,’ and defeated him, recovering some of the Northern cities.”
Chapter 14,15,16. Asa, king of Judah. 912 – 872 B.C.
“Reigned 41 years. (Told also in 1 Kings 15: 9-24.). His long reign overlapped the reigns of 7 kings in the Northern kingdom. He was a good king, serving the Lord with great zeal. A great wave of reform swept the land. He broke down the foreign altars, high places, pillars, sun-images and ashram; he put away the sodomites (male prostitutes), and removed his mother from being queen because she worshiped an idol. Very prosperous.”
Soli Deo Gloria!