Text: 2 Chronicles 12:1-16
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 14:21-31
Subject: Shishak attacks Jerusalem
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts of Shishak's invasion of Judah during Rehoboam's reign. Both texts report that Rehoboam "abandoned the law of the LORD" and Shishak attacked Jerusalem, but the Chronicler adds significant theological material: the prophet Shemaiah's oracle "You abandoned Me, so I have abandoned you" (azavtem oti ve-af-ani azavti etkhem, 2 Chr 12:5) and Rehoboam's repentance, which averted total destruction. Where 1 Kings simply records the plunder of temple treasures, the Chronicler presents the invasion as a paradigm of the retribution principle: unfaithfulness brings judgment, but humility brings partial deliverance.
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Text: 1 Kings 14:21-31
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 12:1-16
Subject: Rehoboam's reign — parallel account
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel historiographical accounts of Rehoboam's reign. Kings provides a brief, largely negative summary — Judah's idolatry (high places, sacred pillars, Asherah poles), Shishak's invasion and plundering of the temple, and the continual warfare with Jeroboam. The Chronicler expands significantly, adding Shemaiah's prophetic sermon (2 Chr 12:5-8) explaining Shishak's invasion as divine discipline for abandoning the Torah (עָזַב, 'azav, "forsake"), Rehoboam's repentance that averts total destruction, and the theological verdict that "he did evil, because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD." The Chronicler's additions transform a political narrative into a paradigm of judgment, repentance, and partial restoration.
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Text: 1 Kings 14:21
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 12:1
Subject: Shishak attacks Jerusalem
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Both texts open Rehoboam's reign summary, but with markedly different emphases. In 1 Kings 14:21, the narrator notes Rehoboam's age (41), his mother Naamah the Ammonite, and that he reigned in Jerusalem "the city the LORD had chosen." The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 12:1 begins instead with Rehoboam's apostasy: "When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD." The Kings account provides the regnal framework; Chronicles immediately identifies the theological crisis — a king in the chosen city who forsakes the Torah, leading directly to Pharaoh Shishak's invasion as divine judgment.