1 Kings 12:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

1 Kings 12:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:13
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
1 Kings 11:36
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
2 Chronicles 10:17
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
2 Chronicles 11:13-17
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-24)

We have here the rending of the kingdom of the ten tribes from the house of David, to effect which, I. The people were hold and resolute in their revolt. They highly resented the provocation that Rehoboam had given them, were incensed at his menaces, concluded that that government would in the progress of it be intolerably grievous which in the beginning of it was so very haughty, and therefore im…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

15-18. the king hearkened not unto the people, for the cause was from the Lord--That was the overruling cause. Rehoboam’s weakness (Ec 2:18, 19) and inexperience in public affairs has given rise to the probable conjecture, that, like many other princes in the East, he had been kept secluded in the harem till the period of his accession (Ec 4:14), his father being either afraid of his aspiring to t…