1.43 Forty Years of Trouble

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 November 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In the first decades after Solomon's united kingdom split, the two kingdoms spent their time in brush wars. The kingdom of Judah went through three kings: Rehoboam, Abijam (or Abijah), and Asa. In the northern kingdom of Israel, Jeroboam's dynasty came to an end with his son Nadab, overthrown by general Baasha. This was not a happy time.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.
0:27.9	The Episbury. Episode 1.43. 40 years of trouble.
0:47.2	In the last episode of the history in the Bible, I described how Solomon's kingdom was sundered in two.
0:55.0	Now Jerobar was king of Israel, and Solomon's son Riaboan was king of Judah.
1:02.0	We don't really know how old Riaboan was upon his coronation.
1:08.0	The Masoretic text says he was 41. The Septuagint says he was 16. Rehoboam comes across as the typical son of a dictator.
1:20.0	Megalamanical, jealous, incompetent, and surrounded by yes-men. His actions would better fit a born-to-rule 16-year-old than a mature
1:30.3	prince of the line. Kings is clear that Rehoboam lost the kingdom because of his father
1:37.9	Solomon's apostasy. Rehoboam never attempted to recover Israel. The best he could manage were border raids.
1:47.7	There were many skirmishes between the two kingdoms in the first decades,
1:52.9	the tiny tribe of Benjamin suffering the brunt of the fighting.
1:57.2	Kings offers little about his reign,
2:00.1	save for his ineptitude in the Israelites succession,
2:03.7	and the story of an invasion by the Egyptians under Pharaoh Sheshonk.
2:08.7	The Pharaoh is also called Shishak or Sheshok or Shoshink.
2:14.7	Pick your pronunciation.
2:17.0	The invasion is conventionally dated to 926 BC.
2:21.9	The chronicler has more to say than kings. He wants to present Solomon in the best possible light.
2:29.8	So he omits all that foreign wife stuff leading to disaster.
2:35.5	He's also more inclined to paint Solomon's first successors with a rosy hue.
2:41.8	Chronicles expands on Ria Bowen, to whom he attributes 18 wives and 60 concubines.
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