2 Chronicles 12:13

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:21

And Roboam the son of Solomon reigned in Juda. Roboam 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 put his name there. And his mother's name was Naama an Ammonitess.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it.

Ezekiel 48:35

Its circumference was eighteen thousand: and the name of the city from that day, The Lord is there.

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing? And surely among many nations there was not a king like him. And he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.

Nehemiah 13:1

And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever.

2 Chronicles 13:7

And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial. And they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.

1 Kings 11:1

And king Solomon loved many strange women besides the daughter of Pharao. And women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

Deuteronomy 23:3

The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation, shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Deuteronomy 12:11

In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you: holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the first-fruits of your hands, and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

Exodus 20:24

You shall make an altar of earth unto me: and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace-offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be. I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

2 Chronicles 12:1

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

1 Kings 11:36

And to his son I will give one tribe: that there may remain a lamp for my servant David before me always in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, that my name might be there.

2 Chronicles 6:5

From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in it to my name. Neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my people Israel.