We are here going on with the history of Rehoboam. I. His attempt to recover the ten tribes he has lost, and the letting fall of that attempt in obedience to the divine command, 2 Chron. 11:1–4. II. His successful endeavours to preserve the two tribes that remained, 2 Chron. 11:5–12. III.

How the ten tribes deserted the house of David we read in the foregoing chapter. They had formerly sat loose to that family , and now they quite threw it off, not considering how much it would weaken the common interest and take Israel down from that pitch of glory at which it had arrived in the…

See here, I. How Rehoboam was strengthened by the accession of the priests and Levites, and all the devout and pious Israelites, to him, even all that were true to their God and their religion. 1.