1 Kings 12:21-24

The Kingdom Divided

²¹ _w When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. ²² But the word of God came to _x Shemaiah the man of God: ²³ "Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the _y rest of the people, ²⁴ 'Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, _z for this thing is from me.'" So they listened to the word of the Lord and went home again, according to the word of the Lord.

1. Cross References
   1 Kings 12:21 - 24
   When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
   2 Chronicles 11:1 - 4
   When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 12:5
   Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the Lord, 'You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.'
   2 Chronicles 12:7
   When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
   2 Chronicles 12:15
   Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Kings 12:17
   But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Kings 12:15
   So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.