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When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the LORD’s law, and all Israel with him. See also: 2 Chronicles 11:172 Chronicles 12:132 Chronicles 26:13-16In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against the LORD, See also: 1 Kings 11:402 Chronicles 7:19-20Judges 2:13-15with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. See also: Nahum 3:92 Chronicles 16:8Daniel 11:43He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. See also: 2 Chronicles 11:5-122 Kings 18:17Jeremiah 5:10Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “The LORD says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’” See also: 2 Chronicles 15:22 Chronicles 11:21 Kings 12:22Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The LORD is righteous.” See also: Exodus 9:27Daniel 9:14Judges 1:7When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the LORD’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. See also: 2 Chronicles 34:251 Kings 21:28-29Isaiah 42:25Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.” See also: Deuteronomy 28:47-48Isaiah 26:13Judges 3:1So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made. See also: 1 Kings 10:16-172 Chronicles 9:15-162 Kings 16:8King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house. See also: Song of Songs 3:7-82 Samuel 8:182 Samuel 23:23As often as the king entered into the LORD’s house, the guard came and bore them, then brought them back into the guard room. When he humbled himself, the LORD’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in Judah. See also: 2 Chronicles 19:32 Chronicles 33:12-132 Chronicles 12:6-7So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. See also: 1 Kings 14:21Deuteronomy 12:52 Chronicles 6:6He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek the LORD. See also: 2 Chronicles 19:3Ezekiel 33:31Isaiah 55:6-7Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. See also: 2 Chronicles 9:292 Chronicles 12:51 Kings 12:22Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son reigned in his place. See also: 1 Kings 14:29-312 Chronicles 13:1Matthew 1:7
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 12:1
Ver. 1. Israel, in his dominions. The kingdom of Jeroboam had long before apostatized, though there were still many true servants of God, who would not bend the knee before Baal, v. 12. H.
↑ 12 Chronicles 12:3
Ver. 3. Troglodites, who dwell in caverns, near the Red Sea. Pliny (v. 8. and vi.
29.) speaks of the city Suca, which in Heb. means a tent, as here we read succiyim, (H.) "dwelling in tents;"
which some explain of the Arabs, who are called Scenites, on the same account. T. --- People of this description, without any fixed abode, inhabited the Stony as well as the Desert Arabia. C.
xiv. 14.
↑ 32 Chronicles 12:7
Ver. 7. A little help. I will not suffer them to be quite destroyed. Heb. also signifies, "shortly."
C. --- Fall, ( stillabit) like drops of water, even to the last. H. --- How soon is God appeased! T.
--- Even when he punishes, he does not let the whole flood of his indignation fall upon the guilty.
M.
↑ 72 Chronicles 12:10
Ver. 10. Bearers. Heb. "runners," as the guards attended the king on foot.
↑ 102 Chronicles 12:12
Ver. 12. For even. Prot. "and also in Judah things went well;" (H.) or, "he spoke good words even to Juda." C. --- Sept. "for even in Juda there were good words, and in all pleasing." Words are often put for works. H. --- The Lord regarded the fidelity of some, and the humility of the princes. (C. --- This advantage was derived from tribulation, that the king entered into himself, at least for a time: (H.) but he was not constant, v. 14. After the scourge was withdrawn, he presently relapsed. He had betrayed great cowardice, as even his son confessed; and had probably been treated with great indignity, (T.) as it was the custom with Sesac, or Sesostris, to chain the conquered princes to his triumphal car, and to leave obscene representations of women in the country. Joseph. viii. 4. Herod. ii. --- Sesostris proceeded to the conquest of Asia. T.
↑ 122 Chronicles 12:14
Ver. 14. Lord, with sincerity, being actuated only by a servile fear. He died impenitent. C.
↑ 142 Chronicles 12:15
Ver. 15. And diligently. Heb. "in their genealogical accounts." H. See C. xiii. 22.
↑ 15License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses