2 Chronicles 12:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

King Rehoboam  established his royal power in Jerusalem. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put his name.  Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:21

Now Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, reigned in Judah.  Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put his name.  Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But I have chosen Jerusalem so that my name will be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, turn to the place the Lord your God chooses  from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.

Ezekiel 48:35

The perimeter of the city will be 9.6 kilometres,  and the name of the city from that day on will be The Lord Is There.’

Nehemiah 13:26

Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.

Nehemiah 13:1

At that time  the book of Moses  was read publicly to  the people.  The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite  should ever enter the assembly of God,

2 Chronicles 13:7

Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young, inexperienced, and unable to assert himself against them.

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter:  Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

Deuteronomy 23:3

No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the Lord’s assembly;  none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the Lord’s assembly.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then the Lord your God will choose the place to have his name dwell.  Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions,  and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.

Exodus 20:24

‘Make an earthen altar for me, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your flocks and herds. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause my name to be remembered.

2 Chronicles 12:1

When Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power,  he abandoned the law of the Lord  #– #he and all Israel with him.

1 Kings 11:36

I will give one tribe  to his son,  so that my servant David will always have a lamp  before me  in Jerusalem, the city I chose for myself to put my name there.

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city to build a temple in among any of the tribes of Israel, so that my name would be there, and I have not chosen a man to be ruler over my people Israel.