Ch 12
Rehoboam
Asks for advice and follows bad advice
"My father whipped you with cords I'll whip you with scorpions"

It's always easier to destiny what belongs together than to restore it.

The Kingdom becomes irreparably sundered.

Jeroboam institutes a new religion new worship centers sets up his own priests (2Chron 11:14ff there are some Levites who had left)

Ch 13
Man of God prophet
* Rule of Josiah foretold
* Jeroboam's hand withered
* Alter broken

Old prophet
* A vision from ''an angel"

Man of God prophet
* Sins; disobeys word of God

* God opposes idolatry of any sort