2 Chronicles 11:2 - Exposition

Shemaiah the man of God . This is the first historical mention ( 1 Kings 12:22 ) of Shemaiah. The second is found in 2 Chronicles 12:5 , 2 Chronicles 12:7 , on occasion of the invasion of Judah and Jerusalem by Shishak King of Egypt; anti the third, in the same chapter, 2 Chronicles 12:15 , that he wrote a book respecting the acts of Rehoboam. The expression, "man of God," owns to a somewhat unexplained history. It is first found in the added part of Deuteronomy ( Deuteronomy 33:1 ), where it is applied to Moses. It occurs once in Joshua ( Joshua 14:6 ); twice in Judges ( 13:6 , 13:8 ); four times in Samuel ( 1 Samuel 2:27 ; 1 Samuel 9:6-8 ); twenty-nine times in Kings; six times in Chronicles; once each in Ezra, Nehemiah and Jeremiah.