2 Chronicles 10

2 Chronicles 10:1

JjlND Rehoboam ivent to Shechem:for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.

2 Chronicles 10:2

And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat (who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king) heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. See 1 Kings xii. where this chapter is, so fully explained, that little is to be added here.

2 Chronicles 10:3

And they sent and called him. The Targum well translates it, for they sent, giving a reason why he returned from Egypt. So Jeroboam and all Israel came, and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

2 Chronicles 10:4

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee. This verse is the same in sense with 1 Kings xii. 4. and so arc those that follow, with those that follow there; where see them explained. I shall only add, that if this complaint of Solomon’s hard usage of them was true, it is probable that when he was corrupted by the love of money and strange women, and fell into idolatry, he also oppressed his subjects; being unable to maintain such great expenses, as so many wives and concubines, and building them places for religious worship (besides other things beforementioned) put him unto, without greater treasures than he had heaped up to support them. At least they began to be exhausted, which tempted him to these ill courses to keep them full.

2 Chronicles 10:5

A.nd he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed. The rest of this chapter is so much the very same, not only in sense, but also in words, with what we had before in the book of the Kings, that I shall not transcribe it. CHAP. XI.] THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES.