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God's Sovereign Purpose
Commentators unanimously highlight a key theological truth: God's purpose operates behind human motives. While Shishak, the king of Egypt, invaded for his own reasons like power and wealth, the Chronicler reveals the divine perspective. God was sovereignly using Shishak as an instrument, a 'rod' of chastisement, to discipline His unfaithful people, even though Shishak himself was unaware of this divine purpose.
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2 Chronicles
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Chronicles 12:2
18th Century
Theologian
Shishak ... came up ... because they had transgressed - The writer speaks from a divine, not a human, point of view. Shishak’s moti…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Chronicles 12:2
19th Century
Bishop
And it came to pass. —See 1 Kings 14:25, with which this verse literally coincides, except that the last clau…
Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Chronicles 12:2
19th Century
Preacher
And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed ag…
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John Gill
On 2 Chronicles 12:2
17th Century
Pastor
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Rehoboam
In the fourth year, the apostasy of him and his people began; and,…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Chronicles 12:1–16
17th Century
Minister
When Rehoboam was so strong that he supposed he had nothing to fear from Jeroboam, he cast off his outward profession of godliness. It is very comm…