Passage Research
2 Chronicles 12 — Sermon Preparation
Shishak of Egypt attacks Jerusalem in Rehoboam's fifth year and carries off the temple and palace treasures after the king abandons the LORD. Below is a research summary for 2 Chronicles 12, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 5
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
2 Chronicles 12 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רְחַבְעָם | Rᵉchabʻâm | H7346 | 9 | Rechabam |
| שִׁישַׁק | Shîyshaq | H7895 | 5 | Shishak |
| יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם | Yᵉrûwshâlaim | H3389 | 7 | Jerushalaim, Jerushalem |
| כָּנַע | kânaʻ | H3665 | 4 | bend, humiliate |
| מָלַךְ | mâlak | H4427 | 4 | reign, ascend the throne |
| שְׁמַעְיָה | Shᵉmaʻyâh | H8098 | 3 | Shemajah |
| רוּץ | rûwts | H7323 | 3 | run, rush |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on 2 Chronicles 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This chapter gives us a more full account of the reign of Rehoboam than we had before in Kings and it is a very melancholy account. Methinks we are in the book of Judges again; for, I. Rehoboam and his people did evil in the sight of the Lord, ver. 1. II. God thereupon sold them into the hands of Shishak, king of Egypt, who greatly oppressed them, ver. 2-4. III. God sent a prophet to them, to expound to them the judgment and to call them to repentance, ver. 5. IV. They thereupon humbled themselves, ver. 6. V. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 2 Chronicles 12:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Ammon— 2 Chr 12:13
- Jerusalem— 2 Chr 12:13
- City of David— 2 Chr 12:16
- Egypt— 2 Chr 12:2
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