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Every three years the king’s fleet and Hiram’s would sail to Tharsis, whence they came back laden with gold and silver; with ivory, too, and apes and peacocks for their freight. (2 Chronicles 9, 21)
And all these brought him gifts, so that gold and silver ware, presents of clothes and armour, spices, too, and horses and mules came in year by year. (2 Chronicles 9, 24)
he asked advice first of the older men that had been courtiers in the life-time of his father; what answer should he make to the people? (2 Chronicles 10, 6)
Why, they told him, if thou wilt but court their favour, and win them with gracious words, they will never cease giving thee loyal service. (2 Chronicles 10, 7)
And the king, instead of heeding the advice which the older men had given him, spoke to the people harshly, (2 Chronicles 10, 13)
Thereupon the prophet Semeias came into Roboam’s presence, where he sat with all the chief men of Juda, that had taken refuge in Jerusalem at Sesac’s approach. This is the Lord’s message for you, he told them; You have abandoned me, and now I am abandoning you to the mercy of Sesac. (2 Chronicles 12, 5)
Thus Sesac, king of Egypt, raised the siege of Jerusalem, but not until he had removed all the treasures of temple and palace. Among the spoils he carried away were the golden shields Solomon had made, (2 Chronicles 12, 9)
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)
Think you now to maintain yourselves against that kingdom which David’s line rules by divine commission? Your numbers indeed are many; but what gods protect you? Only the golden calves Jeroboam made for you. (2 Chronicles 13, 8)
Day in, day out, they offer the Lord burnt-sacrifice; incense is ours, made as the law prescribes, and the loaves set out on the hallowed table; the golden lamp-stand is ours, and the lamps ever lit at evening; the commands of the Lord our God, among you so slighted, we keep. (2 Chronicles 13, 11)
And there he made his plea to the Lord God; It is all one to thee, Lord, be they few or many to whom thou wouldst bring thy aid. Help us now, O Lord our God; in thee, in thy name we put our trust, boldly offering battle to such hordes as these. Lord, thou art our own God; do not let man have the mastery of thee. (2 Chronicles 14, 11)
the sheep-folds, too, they broke down, and drove away sheep and camels in abundance. And so they returned to Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 14, 15)
