And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

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3032 B.C.

972
when Rehoboam

2 Chronicles 12:13 King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his mother was Naama an Ammonitess.

2 Chronicles 11:17 And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda, and established Roboam the son of Solomon for three years: for they walked in the ways of David and of Solomon, only three years.

he forsook

2 Chronicles 26:13-16 And the whole army under them three hundred and seven thousand five hundred: who were fit for war, and fought for the king against the enemy. . . .

Deuteronomy 6:10-12 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, . . .

Deuteronomy 8:10-14 That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the Lord thy God for the excellent land which he hath given thee. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:15,18 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. . . .

1 Kings 9:9 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

Jeremiah 2:31 See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?

Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.

Hosea 13:6-8 According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me. . . .

all Israel

2 Chronicles 11:3 Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the king of Juda, and to all Israel, in Juda and Benjamin:

1 Kings 12:17 But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over them.

1 Kings 14:22-24 And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed. . . .

2 Kings 17:19 But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.

Hosea 5:10,11 The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. . . .

Micah 6:16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.