Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Kings 15-17.

We learn something about Rehoboam and his son by reading between the lines when the passage discusses Asa, Rehoboam’s grandson, taking the throne.  It tells us that Asa brought into the Temple the articles which had been dedicated to God by his father.  While this does not directly tell us anything about Rehoboam, it seems unlikely that Asa’s father would have dedicated items to the Lord, if his father before him had not worshiped the Lord along with the other gods he worshiped.  This fact does not redeem Rehoboam, since God does not accept worship if the worshiper also worships other gods, but it explains how the early kings of Judah were different from the kings of Israel.  This helps explain how Judah managed to have some righteous kings while the kings of Israel became ever more wicked.  In this passage we see the effects of having an unrighteous government, as kingship changed hands by violent overthrow in Israel as often as it passed peacefully from one king to the next.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.