2 Chronicles 10-12: The Son of Solomon Who Did Not Seek Wisdom

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Susan Merrill & Heather Rubio

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Join us in this episode as we see the kingdom's devastating split. Despite prideful choices and political chaos, we can be confident God's plans and promises will always prevail. Themes of this podcast: God’s covenant will prevail, even through human failure. Despite the foolishness, division, and rebellion of Israel’s kings and people, God’s promise to David remains intact. God’s plan cannot be derailed—even by bad kings, broken kingdoms, or national collapse. Wisdom is a choice and so is fo...

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0:00.0	This is the Bible Book Club, the book of Second Chronicles.
0:05.0	Welcome to the club.
0:14.0	Last time in chapters 8 and 9 of Second Chronicles, we discovered that Solomon was quite the builder,
0:20.7	and he had several business
0:22.2	ventures as well. Those only served to increase his influencer status as he gained more followers.
0:28.4	The most famous was the curious queen of Sheba, who made an arduous trip to see his kingdom for
0:34.6	herself. She was impressed and rightly gave all the credit to Solomon's God.
0:39.5	They exchanged a few gifts and off she went. After that, there was a constant stream of kings
0:45.1	and officials who came to see the wise and wealthy Solomon. So in this episode, the chronicler is
0:51.1	going to transition to all the lesser kings. The nation will divide into
0:55.9	northern Israel and southern Judah. Now unlike First and Second Kings, the books of First and
1:01.8	Second Kings, which covers both kingdoms, Chronicles ignores the Northern Kings because they had no
1:08.9	divine promise. The promise from God was for the line of David
1:13.2	and their only hope is in him. The king who saves must come from that line. So the Northern
1:20.0	kings, they just don't count. Therefore, the chronicler focuses exclusively on Judah's 21 kings,
1:27.3	including David.
1:28.3	The chronicler adds new details, not in the books of kings, to teach the returned exiles through character studies of the faithful and the unfaithful.
1:39.3	The Israelites must learn from their past.
1:42.3	If they are faithful to the covenant with God,
1:45.3	he will be with them. If they are unfaithful, there will be consequences and ultimately exile.
1:52.2	Okay, so here's the players in this story, Rehoboam and Jeroboam. Now, Rehoboam was the only
1:59.7	recorded son of Solomon, which is a bit of a mystery,
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