2 Chronicles 11:4 Cross References - TKJU

⁴ thus says the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers: Return every man to his house: For this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

⁸ And Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife, I implore you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.

²⁰ But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, ere you bid the people return from following their brothers?

²⁹ And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field: ³⁰ And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: ³¹ And he said to Jeroboam, "Take you ten pieces: For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you: ³² (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel): ³³ Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep My statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. ³⁴ However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: But I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept My commandments and My statutes: ³⁵ But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes. ³⁶ And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there. ³⁷ And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel. ³⁸ And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

³⁶ And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, "Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.

¹⁵ So the king did not hearken to the people: For the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ¹⁶ And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? And we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: Every man to your tents, O Israel: And now, David, see to your own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

⁷ But there came a man of God to him, saying, "O king, let not the army of Israel go with you; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim. ⁸ But if you will go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make you fall before the enemy: For God has power to help, and to cast down. ⁹ And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give you much more than this. ¹⁰ Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: Why their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.

⁸ And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. ⁹ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: And he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said to them, "Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage that reaches up to heaven. ¹⁰ And now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for servants and bondwomen to you: But are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God? ¹¹ Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which you have taken captive of your brothers: For the fierce wrath of the LORD is on you. ¹² Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those that came from the war, ¹³ and said to them, "You shall not bring in the captives here: For whereas we have offended against the LORD already, you intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: For our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel. ¹⁴ So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. ¹⁵ And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: Then they returned to Samaria.

¹¹ The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations.

⁴ They have set up kings, but not by Me: They have made princes, and I knew it not: They have made idols for themselves from their silver and their gold, that they may be cut off.

²⁶ And the next day he showed himself to them as they fought, and would have reconciled them as one again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?'

⁵ I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not even one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? ⁶ But brother goes to the court of law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. ⁷ Now therefore, there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to the court of law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded? ⁸ No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that to your brethren.

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

⁸ Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion toward one another, love as brethren, be tender-hearted, be courteous:

¹¹ For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹² Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. ¹³ Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.