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<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2907S1016.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1243 Download Link --> <p>II Chronicles 10-16 We are in the Nation Stream reading from The Living Bible. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Heavenly Father, we see the biblical truths shining forth today. Following you leads to wellness, strength, establishment, and blessing. Turning from you takes lives into decimation and loss.  May we learn from this and follow you regardless of anything that tries to distract us.  We are yours. Lord God.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <p>Solomon is gone. The zenith of Jerusalem's wealth and power was a bygone era.  The glory of it all <u><em>was</em></u> stunning. Solomon had entranced the world as God had blessed him with a level of achievement no human had known to date.  But as time and tide waits for no man, Solomon's time was up after 40 years of leadership and his successor was not nearly as competent.  His son was raised by a brilliant man, yes, but not a godly man.  Whereas Solomon had been raised by a godly man.  Let the implications of that simmer in your mind.  Note that whereas the Book of I & II Kings gives a parallel account of this era, II Chronicles 10-36 (following Solomon's death at the end of II Chr. 9) tells of only the kings of Judah.  So keep in mind as you study Bible in this life, I Kings and II Chronicles both begin with Solomon</p> <div>10 - Solomon's son Rehoboam (among numerous sons!) succeeded him as king in Jerusalem. Meanwhile Jeroboam, an Ephraimite [who was a manager of the labor force and the taxes coming from Ephraim for Solomon] came back from exile and lead a rebellion against the system that taxed the whole country at a stifling level.  Jeroboam's concerns were legitimate actually.  The problem was that in the p