This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...is a later addition, and sounds like a friendly excuse for Rehoboam's inaction and indifference (Hist., ii. 211, 246). He regards it as a post-exilic midrash after the manner of the Chronicler (Konigsbucher, 106). It is true that Rehoboam kept up a sort of border war for a long time; it is so expressly stated ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...is a later addition, and sounds like a friendly excuse for Rehoboam's inaction and indifference (Hist., ii. 211, 246). He regards it as a post-exilic midrash after the manner of the Chronicler (Konigsbucher, 106). It is true that Rehoboam kept up a sort of border war for a long time; it is so expressly stated in I Kings xiv. 30; but it may be that this passage, however late, contains a bit of true history, namely, that the king refrained from a great war by prophetic advice. The border war he could not control, even if he had cared to stop it. Whatever Shemaiah's position at court was, he evidently wielded a great influence in the affairs of state. It was no light task to turn back a king when his forces were already mustered for war. The prophet appears once again in the character of a state counsellor, though in a matter more distinctly religious. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign Judah was invaded by Shishak, the king of Egypt. To the king and princes wondering at the havoc wrought in Jahveh's land, the prophet gives the easy explanation: " Thus saith Jahveh: you have abandoned Me, and therefore have I abandoned you in the hand of Shishak."' Again Rehoboam accepted the counsel of the man of God, and as a consequence of his humility, a comforting message was given to him: " They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them, but I will shortly make them an escaped remnant, and My anger shall not be poured upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. Yet they shall become servants to him, that they may know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the lands."2 The plain meaning of this advice in modern terms seems to be this. The feeble Judean army had no chance against the vastly superior Egyptian force. To resist such a power meant...
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