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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 11:18

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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11:18-22 The numbers of Rehoboam’s wives and children are probably the total from his entire reign rather than those accumulated by his fifth year. Rehoboam loved his second wife more than his first, so he violated the right of primogeniture (inheritance belonging to the firstborn son, Deut 21:15-17) by making Abijah . . . the next king in what might have been co-regency. This action secured an orderly succession.
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