2 Crônicas 11
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1 E quando veio Roboão a Jerusalém, juntou da casa de Judá e de Benjamim cento e oitenta mil homens escolhidos de guerra, para lutar contra Israel e voltar o reino a Roboão. 2 Mas foi palavra do SENHOR a Semaías homem de Deus, dizendo: 3 Fala a Roboão filho de Salomão, rei de Judá, e a todos os israelitas em Judá e Benjamim, dizendo-lhes: 4 Assim disse o SENHOR: Não subais nem luteis contra vossos irmãos; volte-se casa um a sua casa, porque eu fiz este negócio. E eles ouviram a palavra do SENHOR, e voltaram-se, e não foram contra Jeroboão. 5 E habitou Roboão em Jerusalém, e edificou cidades para fortificar a Judá. 6 E edificou a Belém, e a Etã, e a Tecoa, 7 E a Bete-Zur, e a Socó, e a Adulão, 8 E a Gate, e a Maressa, e a Zife, 9 E a Adoraim, e a Laquis, e a Azeca, 10 E a Zorá, e a Aijalom, e a Hebrom, que eram em Judá e em Benjamim, cidades fortes. 11 Fortificou também as fortalezas, e pôs nelas capitães, e alimentos, e vinho, e azeite; 12 E em todas as cidades, escudos e lanças. Fortificou-as pois em grande maneira, e Judá e Benjamim lhe estavam sujeitos. 13 E os sacerdotes e levitas que estavam em todo Israel, se juntaram a ele de todos seus termos. 14 Porque os levitas deixavam seus campos e suas possessões, e se vinham a Judá e a Jerusalém: pois Jeroboão e seus filhos os lançavam do ministério do SENHOR. 15 E ele se fez sacerdotes para os altos, e para os demônios, e para os bezerros que ele havia feito. 16 Além daqueles acudiram também de todas as tribos de Israel os que haviam posto seu coração em buscar ao SENHOR Deus de Israel; e vieram-se a Jerusalém para sacrificar ao SENHOR, o Deus de seus pais. 17 Assim fortificaram o reino de Judá, e confirmaram a Roboão filho de Salomão, por três anos; porque três anos andaram no caminho de Davi e de Salomão. 18 E tomou-se Roboão por mulher a Maalate, filha de Jeremote filho de Davi, e a Abiail, filha de Eliabe filho de Jessé. 19 A qual lhe gerou filhos: a Jeus, e a Samaria, e a Zaaão. 20 Depois dela tomou a Maaca filha de Absalão, a qual lhe pariu a Abias, a Atai, Ziza, e Selomite. 21 Mas Roboão amou a Maaca filha de Absalão sobre todas suas mulheres e concubinas; porque tomou dezoito mulheres e sessenta concubinas, e gerou vinte e oito filhos e sessenta filhas. 22 E pôs Roboão a Abias filho de Maaca por cabeça e príncipe de seus irmãos, porque queria fazer-lhe rei. 23 E fez-lhe instruir, e dispersou todos os seus filhos por todas as terras de Judá e de Benjamim, e por todas as cidades fortes, e deu-lhes alimentos em abundância, e buscou para eles muitas mulheres.
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2 Crônicas 11:1-4
2Ch 11:1-17. Rehoboam, Raising an Army to Subdue Israel, Is Forbidden by Shemaiah.
1-4. Rehoboam ... gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin ... to fight against Israel--(See 1Ki 12:21-24).
2 Crônicas 11:5-11
5-11. built cities for defence in Judah--This is evidently used as the name of the southern kingdom. Rehoboam, having now a bitter enemy in Israel, deemed it prudent to lose no time in fortifying several cities that lay along the frontier of his kingdom. Jeroboam, on his side, took a similar precaution (1Ki 12:25). Of the fifteen cities named, Aijalon, now Yalo, and Zorah, now Surah, between Jerusalem and Jabneh [Robinson], lay within the province of Benjamin. Gath, though a Philistine city, had been subject to Solomon. And Etham, which was on the border of Simeon, now incorporated with the kingdom of Israel, was fortified to repel danger from that quarter. These fortresses Rehoboam placed under able commanders and stocked them with provisions and military stores, sufficient, if necessary, to stand a siege. In the crippled state of his kingdom, he seems to have been afraid lest it might be made the prey of some powerful neighbors.
2 Crônicas 11:13-17
13-17. the priests and the Levites ... resorted to him out of all their coasts--This was an accession of moral power, for the maintenance of the true religion is the best support and safeguard of any nation; and as it was peculiarly the grand source of the strength and prosperity of the Hebrew monarchy, the great numbers of good and pious people who sought an asylum within the territories of Judah contributed greatly to consolidate the throne of Rehoboam. The cause of so extensive an emigration from the kingdom of Israel was the deep and daring policy of Jeroboam, who set himself to break the national unity by entirely abolishing, within his dominions, the religious institutions of Judaism. He dreaded an eventual reunion of the tribes if the people continued to repair thrice a year to worship in Jerusalem as they were obliged by law to do. Accordingly, on pretense that the distance of that city was too great for multitudes of his subjects, he fixed upon two more convenient places, where he established a new mode of worshipping God under gross and prohibited symbols [1Ki 12:26-33]. The priests and Levites, refusing to take part in the idolatrous ceremonies, were ejected from their living [2Ch 11:13, 14]. Along with them a large body of the people who faithfully adhered to the instituted worship of God, offended and shocked by the impious innovations, departed from the kingdom.
2 Crônicas 11:18
18. Rehoboam took Mahalath--The names of her father and mother are given. Jerimoth, the father, must have been the son of one of David's concubines (1Ch 3:9). Abihail was, of course, his cousin, previous to their marriage.
2 Crônicas 11:20
2 Crônicas 11:21
21. he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines--This royal harem, though far smaller than his father's, was equally in violation of the law, which forbade a king to "multiply wives unto himself" [De 17:17].
2 Crônicas 11:22
22. made Abijah ... chief ... ruler among his brethren--This preference seems to have been given to Abijah solely from the king's doting fondness for his mother and through her influence over him. It is plainly implied that Abijah was not the oldest of the family. In destining a younger son for the kingdom, without a divine warrant, as in Solomon's case, Rehoboam acted in violation of the law (De 21:15).
2 Crônicas 11:23
23. he dealt wisely--that is, with deep and calculating policy (Ex 1:10).
and dispersed of all his children ... unto every fenced city--The circumstance of twenty-eight sons of the king being made governors of fortresses would, in our quarter of the world, produce jealousy and dissatisfaction. But Eastern monarchs ensure peace and tranquillity to their kingdom by bestowing government offices on their sons and grandsons. They obtain an independent provision, and being kept apart, are not likely to cabal in their father's lifetime. Rehoboam acted thus, and his sagacity will appear still greater if the wives he desired for them belonged to the cities where each son was located. These connections would bind them more closely to their respective places. In the modern countries of the East, particularly Persia and Turkey, younger princes were, till very lately, shut up in the harem during their father's lifetime; and, to prevent competition, they were blinded or killed when their brother ascended the throne. In the former country the old practice of dispersing them through the country as Rehoboam did, has been again revived.
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