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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Chronicles 11:1-23
The division of Israel into two kingdoms was a judgment of God. So it was a waste of time preparing 180,000 warriors to try to reverse the situation. Rehoboam, being warned by the man of God, gave up his idea. He uses his forces to build cities of defence to ensure the protection of, and supplies of food for, his small kingdom.
For his part, Jeroboam was no less active, but sadly in another way! Fearing to lose his influence by allowing his subjects to go to the feasts at Jerusalem, he establishes an idolatrous form of national worship, which was abominable in the eyes of God. So the priests and the Levites of the ten tribes show their affection for the LORD and His commands. Leaving the tarnished land, they go and settle in Judah, preferring to leave behind all that they possess rather than to remain associated with sin. How many Christians have had to, and still should, do the same out of faithfulness to the Lord.
Encouraged by the example of these Levites, other faithful subjects belonging to these ten tribes, probably without leaving their cities permanently, now go up to Jerusalem to sacrifice there in obedience to the Word.
