Today: [2 Chronicles Ten] The Cost of Disobedience. In this chapter Solomon is dead and his son rules in his place. The ten northern tribes appeal to Rehoboam for tax relief and the king refuses thus resulting in a divided kingdom. This had been prophesied to come to pass long before Solomon died. Ahijah the prophet ordained Jeroboam the son of one of Solomon’s servants to be king over the northern tribes because of Solomon’s idolatries. Solomon certainly never expected that his lifestyle choices would cost him so greatly. In our own lives we make choices that many times affect us in ways we cannot measure even after the cost is exacted. Therefore we read this chapter with a certain sense of the fear of the Lord that we might not experience the same chastisement that Solomon and his son Rehoboam did.