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2 Chronicles 11 Bible study: Set their hearts to seek
2 Chronicles tells what 1 Kings doesn't: when Jeroboam cast off the Levites, they "left their pasture lands and their possessions" for Judah (11:14), and after them came people "out of all the tribes of Israel" who set their hearts to seek the LORD (11:16). The kingdom had split in two, but seeking the LORD still brought people from every tribe to Jerusalem.
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“After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.”
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“2 Chronicles 11:14 says the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem.”
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"Your brothers"
Rehoboam is back in Jerusalem, and he gathers "one hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam" (11:1). "But the LORD’s word came to Shemaiah the man of God" (11:2), for "Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and… all Israel in Judah and Benjamin" (11:3). The word is short: "You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me." (11:4) (tap brothers). Israel, who had just cried, "What portion do we have in David?" (10:16), are still, in the LORD's word, Judah's brothers. And this time the king's side listens: "So they listened to the LORD’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam" (11:4). 1 Kings tells the same word a little differently: "You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me." (1 Kings 12:24). There it is spoken "to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people" (1 Kings 12:23); 2 Chronicles says "all Israel in Judah and Benjamin" (11:3).
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- The priests and Levites come to Judah
- Those who set their hearts to seek the LORD
- Cities for defense
- Rehoboam's household
- "This thing is of me"
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The Hebrew word behind it
בָּקַשׁbaqashsay ba-KASH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "seek". Strong's: "to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer)". "those who set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel" (11:16). 2 Chronicles more often speaks of seeking the LORD with another verb, darash: "he didn’t set his heart to seek the LORD" (12:14). The Hebrew of 2 Chronicles has baqash eight times, first in the LORD's "seek my face" (7:14). It is also the verb when all Judah "sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them" (15:15). In one verse the two verbs stand side by side: "He sought Ahaziah" is baqash, and "who sought the LORD with all his heart" is darash (22:9).
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2 Chronicles 11 Bible study questions
- 1The LORD said, "You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers!" (11:4), and they went home. Is there a fight you feel entitled to that God may be asking you to let go of?
- 2The Levites "left their pasture lands and their possessions" (11:14) when they were cast off from serving the LORD. What has following God cost you, or what might it cost you?
- 3People from all the tribes "set their hearts to seek the LORD" (11:16). What would setting your heart to seek him look like on an ordinary day this week?
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