Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home

2 Chronicles 11:1-23

But this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God: “Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.’” So they obeyed the words of the Lord and turned back from marching against Jeroboam.

The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord.

Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maakah as crown prince among his brothers, in order to make him king. He acted wisely, dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and took many wives for them.

Why?

Israelites are divided into two parts, which is a sign of downfall. The Lord stopped Jeroboam from fighting against their fellow brothers Israelites.

The beginning of the division came from Jeroboam, who did not love the people of Israel.

Rehoboam did not put much effort into his nation but married many wives and women.

How?

Love makes people come together, hate and arrogance make people separate.