Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

 

 

June 14, 2021

 

1 Kings 14:21-28-31

 

Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.   And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.   For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.  He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made, and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.   And as often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.

 

Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, the wisest man with a human dad to walk on the earth and also the wealthiest man to do so, dropped the ball for his son who did not follow the command of God.  The people were not led back to God, instead, they went after the gods of their neighbors. 

 

If reading this account of this King, whom God had entrusted with so much, it was all taken from him because of his trust in the world's god.  And you and I live in the greatest nation on earth today, it has wealth and a powerful military, and today we still have the freedom to speak out against an evil group that controls our nation.  Often, I wonder who is pulling the string, but this I do know, what is done in secret will be exposed in the light, and those who are after the little god of power and wealth will find it is like chasing after the wind

 

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice