Sunday Sermonette: You read this before

Chapter 10 is essentially lifted from 1 Kings 12. It recounts the secession of the northern Kingdom of Israel (at other times called Samaria) from Judah and the House of David. It is very odd, in the context of Chronicles, because this is the first time it has been mentioned that Solomon was actually unpopular.He was purportedly the wisest man who ever lived, who made the kingdom unimaginably rich and powerful. In Kings however, there is a long story which the Chronicler omits, about Solomon being seduced by some of his many wives to worship other Gods, and so losing Yaweh ' s favor, which is why the northern kingdom secedes. This explains why Jeroboam had fled to Egypt, because he had already fomented a rebellion, but the Chronicler entirely omits this. So the story, being out of context, seems to make no sense.Again, the politics are that the Chronicler is a Judean partisan, who is not really interested in the northern kingdom, which by the time he wrote no longer existed.10 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt.3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him:4 “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”5 Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people went...
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