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Thus the king refused to fall in with the people’s request; the Lord’s will was to give effect to the promise he had made, through Ahias the Silonite, to Jeroboam son of Nabat. (2 Chronicles 10, 15)
The people, thus churlishly answered, cried out, David is none of ours, not for us the son of Jesse; go back, men of Israel, to your homes! David’s rule for David’s tribe! And with that, Israel dispersed to their homes, (2 Chronicles 10, 16)
Now that Roboam was strong, and firmly seated on his throne, he defied the divine law, and all his people did the like.✻ (2 Chronicles 12, 1)
with a thousand and two hundred chariots, with sixty thousand horsemen; nay, there was no counting the hordes that followed with him, Libyan and Troglodyte and Ethiopian all at once. (2 Chronicles 12, 3)
So Roboam took courage, and ruled his people yet. He was forty-one years old when he came to the throne, and for seventeen years he reigned at Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose, out of all Israel’s tribes, to be the shrine of his name. His mother was called Naama, an Ammonitess. (2 Chronicles 12, 13)
All these were close to the king’s side, not counting those he had marshalled in the walled cities from end to end of Juda. (2 Chronicles 17, 19)
And now, returned to his capital, Josaphat set out on a progress all through his kingdom, from Bersabee to the hill country of Ephraim, recalling the Lord God of their fathers to his people’s minds anew. (2 Chronicles 19, 4)
Thou it was didst overthrow all the dwellers in this land to make room for thy people Israel; thy irrevocable gift it was to the sons of Abraham, thy friend. (2 Chronicles 20, 7)
though indeed he did not abolish the hill-shrines; not yet had his people turned their whole minds to worshipping the Lord, the God of their fathers. (2 Chronicles 20, 33)
A heavy punishment the Lord will send upon thee, taking toll of thy people, of thy sons, of thy wives, and of all thou hast; (2 Chronicles 21, 14)
After this, Joiada would have a covenant made, that bound himself and the people and the new king to be the Lord’s own people. (2 Chronicles 23, 16)
At last the divine spirit fell on the high priest Zacharias, that was son to Joiada; full in the presence of the people he stood up and gave them a message from the Lord God: What means it that you so transgress the Lord’s command, to your peril, forsaking him, and by him forsaken? (2 Chronicles 24, 20)
