When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. 1Ki 12:21-24Pro 21:30-31Psa 33:10Psa 33:16 But the LORD’s word came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 2Ch 12:151Ki 12:22-241Sa 2:271Ti 6:112Ch 12:5-72Ch 8:14Deu 33:1 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 2Ki 17:34Exo 24:4Gen 49:28Php 3:5Rev 7:4-8 ‘The LORD says, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me.”’” So they listened to the LORD’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam. Gen 50:201Ki 11:29-382Ch 10:15-162Ch 25:7-102Ch 28:8-151Co 6:5-81Jn 3:11-131Ki 22:36
Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah. 2Ch 8:2-62Ch 11:232Ch 14:6-72Ch 16:62Ch 17:122Ch 26:62Ch 27:4Isa 22:8-11 He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, 1Ch 4:321Sa 17:122Ch 20:202Sa 14:2Amo 1:1Gen 35:19Jdg 15:8Jer 6:1 Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam, Jos 15:351Sa 22:12Sa 23:13Jos 12:15Jos 15:58Mic 1:15 Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, 1Ch 18:11Sa 23:141Sa 23:19Jos 15:24Jos 15:44Psa 54:1 Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, 2Ch 32:9Jos 10:11Jos 10:5Jos 15:35Jos 15:39 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin. 2Sa 2:11Gen 23:2Jos 14:14Jos 15:33Jos 19:41-42Jos 20:7Num 13:22 He fortified the strongholds and put captains in them with stores of food, oil and wine. 2Ch 11:232Ch 17:19Isa 22:10-11 He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him. 2Ch 26:14-152Ch 32:52Sa 13:192Sa 13:22
The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory. For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to the LORD. 2Ch 13:9Num 35:2-51Ki 12:28-331Ch 6:66-811Ki 13:33Jos 21:20-42Lev 27:30-34Num 18:21-28 He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goat and calf idols which he had made. 1Ki 12:281Ki 12:311Ki 13:33Deu 32:171Ki 14:91Ti 4:1Exo 32:31Exo 32:4-8 After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers. 2Ch 15:91Ch 16:291Ch 22:11Sa 7:3-42Ch 30:112Ch 30:18-19Act 11:23Dan 6:14 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years, for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon. 2Ch 12:12Ch 1:1-122Ch 7:17-192Ch 8:13-16Hos 6:4Mat 13:20-21
Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse. 1Sa 16:61Ch 27:181Sa 17:131Sa 17:281Ch 2:13 She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. After her, he took Maacah the granddaughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. 2Ch 13:21Ki 15:1-22Ch 11:212Ch 12:16Mat 1:7 Rehoboam loved Maacah the granddaughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. 1Ki 11:3Deu 17:17Jdg 8:302Sa 3:2-52Sa 5:132Ch 11:23Sng 6:8-91Ch 3:1-9 Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. Deu 21:15-171Ch 29:11Ch 5:1-2 He dealt wisely, and dispersed some of his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance; and he sought many wives for them. 1Ki 1:5-62Ch 10:8-152Ch 21:3Gen 25:6Luk 16:8