Chronicles On Rehoboam’s Forsaking The Torah

If you think rending the Torah (Law) of G-d as null and void because of Jesus paying the price on the cross, think again.

Such false doctrine or misleading teaching is nowhere to be found in the Hebrew Bible.

If there is such a thing, the consequence is G-d’s wrath.

Read or listen to this chapter, and find out.

“Rehoboam’s Decline”

“The Warning”

“Repentance”

It happened that as Rehoboam’s kingdom became established and he became strong, he forsook the Torah of Hashem, and all Israel with him.
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It was in King Rehoboam’s fifth year that Shishak king of Egypt ascended against Jerusalem — because they had betrayed Hashem —
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He captured Judah’s fortified cities and he approached up to to Jerusalem.
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Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam… and he said to them, “Thus said Hashem: You have abandoned Me; so I, too, have abandoned you into the hands of Shishak!”
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The officers of Israel and the king thereupon humbled themselves, and they said, “Hashem is the righteous One!”
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When Hashem saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of Hashem came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them. I will grant them a small portion as a remnant, and My wrath will not be poured out upon Jerusalem through Shishak.
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Rather, they will become slaves to him, and they will recognize [the difference between] serving Me and serving the kingdoms of the lands!”
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King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned, … and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that Hashem chose in which to place His Name, out of all the tribes of Israel.
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He did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek out Hashem.
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Rehoboam lay with his forefathers and was buried in the City of David. His son Abijah reigned in his place.
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1 Now it came to pass when Rehoboam’s kingdom was established and when he became strong, he abandoned the Law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt marched against Jerusalem, for they had betrayed the Lord.
3 With a thousand and two hundred chariots and with sixty thousand horsemen, and there was no number to the people who came with him from Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Cushites.
4 And he seized Judah’s fortified cities, and he came until Jerusalem.
5 And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “So said the Lord: You have forsaken Me; so I too have forsaken you in the hand of Shishak.”
6 And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said, “The Lord is just.”
7 And when the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I shall not destroy them, but I shall grant them some measure of deliverance, and My wrath will not be poured out in Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
8 For they will be his slaves, and they will know My service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.
9 And Shishak, the king of Egypt, marched against Jerusalem, and he took the treasures of the House of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s palace; everything he took, and he took the golden shields that Solomon had made.
10 And King Rehoboam made instead of them copper shields, and he entrusted them in the hands of the chiefs of the runners, who guarded the entrance of the king’s palace.
11 And it came to pass that whenever the king came to the House of the Lord, the runners came and carried them and returned them to the chamber of the runners.
12 And when he humbled himself, the Lord’s wrath returned from him, and [He did] not [say] to destroy [him] completely, and also in Judah were good things.
13 And King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned, for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and seventeen years he reigned in Jerusalem-the city that the Lord had chosen wherein to place His name, out of all the tribes of Israel; and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
14 And he did that which was evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
15 And the deeds of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer in the manner of genealogy, and the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the times.
16 And Rehoboam slept with his forefathers, and he was buried in the City of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.