2Ch 11 | TSK | STEP | Rehoboam raising an army to subdue Israel, is forbidden by Shemaiah. He strengthens his kingdom with forts and provisions. The priests and Levites, and such as feared God, forsaken by Jeroboam, strengthen the kingdom of Judah. The wives and children of Rehoboam. when Rehoboam. an hundred.

Beth-lehem.Bethlehem, called Bethlehem Judah (Jud 17:7,) to distinguish it from another Bethlehem in Zebulun, (Jos 19:15,) and also Ephratah, (i.e., fruitful,) and by the Arabs, Bait-el-lahm, is situated on a rising ground on the southern side of a deep and extensive valley, and reclining from E. to W. not quite six miles S. of Jerusalem.

Ge 35:19; 1Sa 17:12; Mt 2:5,6

Etam.

Jud 15:8; 1Ch 4:32

Tekoa.

20:20; 2Sa 14:2; Ne 3:5,27; Jer 6:1; Am 1:1

Beth-zur.

Jos 15:58

Shoco.

Jos 15:35

Socoh. Adullam.

Jos 12:15; 15:35; 1Sa 22:1; 2Sa 23:13; Mic 1:15

Gath.

1Ch 18:1

Mareshah.

Jos 15:44

Ziph.

Jos 15:24; 1Sa 23:14,19; Ps 54:1; *title

Lachish.

32:9; Jos 10:5,11; 15:35,39

Zorah.

Jos 15:33

Zoreah.

Jos 19:41,42

Ajalon. Hebron.

Ge 23:2; Nu 13:22; Jos 14:14; 20:7; 2Sa 2:11

he fortified.

Isa 22:10,11

captains.

23; 17:19

he put shields.

26:14,15; 32:5; 2Sa 13:19,22

having Judah.

A.M. 3030. B.C. 974. resorted to him. Heb. presentedthemselves to him.

suburbs.

Nu 35:2-5; Jos 21:20-42; 1Ch 6:66-81

their possession.

Le 27:30-34; Nu 18:21-28

Jeroboam.

13:9; 1Ki 12:28-33; 13:33

for the devils.The word, {seïrim} literally signifies hairy ones, or goats: see Note on Le 17:7.

De 32:17; 1Co 10:20,21; 1Ti 4:1; Re 16:14

for the calves.

Ex 32:4-8,31; 1Ki 12:28; 14:9; Ps 106:19,20; Ho 8:5,6; 13:2

And after.

15:9; 30:11,18,19; Jos 22:19; Ps 84:5-7

set.

Ex 9:21; *marg:

De 32:46; 1Sa 7:3,4; 1Ch 22:19; Job 34:14; Ps 62:10; 108:1; Da 6:14

Ho 4:8; Hag 1:5; *marg:

Ac 11:23

to sacrifice.

De 12:5,6,11,13,14; 1Ch 16:29; 22:1

A.M. 3029-3032. B.C. 975-972. strengthened.

12:1

three years.

1:1-12; 7:17-19; 8:13-16; Ho 6:4; Mt 13:20,21

A.M. 3029-3046. B.C. 975-958. daughter.Eliab was David's eldest brother; and more than eighty years had elapsed since David, at the age of thirty, began to reign: Abigail must therefore have been grand-daughter to Eliab; and this shows the latitude in which the words son and daughter are used in Scripture.

Eliab.

1Sa 16:6; 17:13,28; 1Ch 2:13; 27:18

Elihu.

Maachah.

21; 13:2

Michaiah the daughter of Uriel. Absalom.

1Ki 15:2

Abishalom. Abijah.

12:16; 1Ki 15:1

Abijam.

Mt 1:7

Abia.