No text from Poole on this verse.
For Gath, see Joshua 13:3 note. Its native king, Achish 1 Kings 2:39 , is to he regarded, not as an independent monarch, but as one of the many...
Shemaiah Restrains Rehoboam from Attacking Jeroboam (see notes on 1 Kings 12:21-24 ). The variations between the two records are unimportant....
took him Mahalath... and Abihail. Render "took him with Malahath... Abihail".
And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, No JFB commentary on these verses.
Reign of Rehoboam (continued) This chapter repeats the substance of 1 Kings 12:21-24 , and adds much information relating to Rehoboam's buildings...
Gath. — Uncertain. Perhaps in the Wady-el-Gat north of Ascalon. (See 1 Kings 2:39 and 1 Chronicles 18:1 , from a comparison of which it appear...
REHOBOAM AND ABIJAH: THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL 2 Chronicles 10:1-19 ; 2 Chronicles 11:1-23 ; 2 Chronicles 12:1-16 ; 2 Chronicles 13:1-22 THE...
Then God interfered. No human folly has even been permitted to continue long enough to thwart His purpose. Shemaiah, a prophet of God, declared to Re...
Those fenced cities were intended, no doubt, to act upon the defensive, after that he had received command from the Lord.
And Gath ,.... Which cannot be that Gath which was one of the principalities of the Philistines, but a city in the tribe of Judah; though of it we n...
GOD FORBIDS REHOBOAM TO ATTACK ISRAEL (vv.1-4) When Rehoboam saw his kingdom so largely torn away from him, he assembled an army of 180,000 warr...
Rehoboam Forbidden to Make War. B. C. 975. ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Rehoboam forbidden to war ( 2 Chronicles 11:1-4 ). This section a repetition in abbreviated form of 1 Kings 12:21-24 . Remainder of...
Let us read, for our instruction, part of the story of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon. 2 Chronicles 11:1-4 . And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem...
2 Chronicles 11:15 . For the devils. שׁעירים sheîrim, the hairy ones. The goat was worshipped in Egypt as well as the calf.
EXPOSITION The first four verses of this chapter would have been better placed as the conclusion of the previous chapter. They correspond with...
Rehoboam's Army and Forts
and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
1 Chronicles 18:1 ; 1 Samuel 23:14 ; 1 Samuel 23:19 ; Joshua 15:24 ; Joshua 15:44 ; Psalms 54:1
8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,