So if you have grown up on the pews, we are coming to an account that you might have learned about in your children’s Bible classes. It is the account of the nation of Israel dividing into two nations. The northern nation would be called Israel and the southern nation would be called Judah. One of the places in the scriptures where this account is given is in 1 Kings 12. The other place we can read about this is in 2 Chronicles 10, which is our text of study today. But what we can have the tendency to do is read into one account the message of the other account. What I mean is that we can think that the author of 1 Kings 12 and the author of 2 Chronicles 10 must have the same message and are making the same points. In fact, this can be one big reason why we may not study 1 and 2 Chronicles because we think we already know this information from 1 & 2 Kings. So here is the point I want to make as we approach this study and our future studies in 2 Chronicles. It is not at all that these two accounts are in contradiction to each other. Rather, the Chronicler assumes some knowledge of the Kings account and its message and desires to teach you another message from this event. It is the same as how the Gospel of John will take the same account that is recorded in either Matthew, Mark, or Luke and teach us another message about Jesus. It is not a contradiction but another teaching message. As we come to 2 Chronicles 10 I want us to consider that there is a different teaching message being given here than in the 1 Kings 12 account. To see this teaching message, we need to go to the end of the chapter…

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