Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Conscious of priests and Levites

2 Chronicles 11:1-23
Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built up towns for defense in Judah.
The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him. The Levites even abandoned their pasture lands and property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord.
Rehonaom had eighteen wives and sixty concubines twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Timely word from Shemaiah averts civil war. Instead, Rehoboam concentrates on fortifying his tiny kingdom against attack from her larger and stronger neighbours, particularly Israel and Egypt.
Refugee priests flock to Judah from Israel following Jeroboam's measures to break the religious ties with Jerusalem.
Why?
Rehoboam like his father Solomon had many wives and concubines, but his live is corrupt either.
Good priests abandoned their pastureland and property, and came to Judah to be the people of God.
How?
Priests and Levites are the people of the Lord, They had their conscious to do the right things.




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