How God
Sees People
Lesson
XVIII
Rehoboam –
II- His Reign
I
Rehoboam Reign was influenced more by his mother than his father
1 Kings
1
Kings
II Rehoboam’s Record reveals his mother’s influence
1 Kings 14:21-24
Rehoboam allowed idol worship to
continue
1
Kings 11:7 Rehoboam’s mother, being an
Ammonite, worshiped Molech
2
Chronicles 12:1 He forsook the law of the Lord
2
Chronicles 12:5 The Lord said: “Ye have forsaken
me…”
2
Chronicles
III Rehoboam Revealed his heart by his first major Decision
2 Chronicles 10: 1-8 he forsakes the counsel
of the ‘old men’
2
Chronicles 10: 8-14 he followed the counsel of the young
men with whom he had been brought up
2
Chronicles 12:9-10 he exchanged ‘gold’ for ‘brass’
IV The
Conclusion, Outwardly Rehoboam caused
the Division of the Kingdom
1 Kings 12:19,20
See also
2 Chronicles
2
Chronicles 10:15 for the cause was of God
Such
are the ways of God. He always Has a reason for what He allows men to do
He
used the foolishness of Rehoboam to be the basis for the Judgment later, of the
wickedness of the Ten Tribes.
Cf Psalm 76: 10 what He cannot use He
does not allow