2 Chronicles 12: Abandon the Law - Here Comes Egypt

Rehoboam forsook (abandoned) the law. This means that he knew it and then left it. This meant that he would reap punishment. Egypt came. Egypt punished. Rehoboam humbled himself and God had mercy on him. Most of the times when we need God’s mercy, it is because we have sinned, He has brought calamity on us, and then we repent! All too often we who know that we need to repent refuse to do so until we have been “caught.” And sometimes that kind of repentance doesn’t last (vv. 13-14).