Kings of Judah
1REHOBOAM went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
2When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it in Egypt, where he had taken refuge to escape Solomon, he returned from Egypt.
3The people now recalled him, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
4“Your father laid a harsh yoke upon us; but if you will now lighten the harsh labour he imposed and the heavy yoke he laid on us, we shall serve you.”
5“Give me three days,” he said, “and then come back.” When the people had gone,
6King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had been in attendance during the lifetime of his father Solomon: “What answer do you advise me to give to this people?”
7They said, “If you show yourself well-disposed to this people and gratify them by speaking kindly to them, they will be your servants ever after.”
8But rejecting the advice given him by the elders he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were now in attendance;
9he asked them, “What answer do you advise me to give to this people's request that I should lighten the yoke which my father laid on them?”
10The young men replied, “Give this answer to the people who say that your father made their yoke heavy and ask you to lighten it; tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
11My father laid a heavy yoke on you; but I shall make it heavier. My father whipped you; but I shall flay you.’”
12Jeroboam and the people all came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered.
13The king gave them a harsh answer; he rejected the advice which the elders had given him
14and spoke to the people as the young men had advised: “My father made your yoke heavy; but I shall make it heavier. My father whipped you; but I shall flay you.”
15The king would not listen to the people, for the LORD had given this turn to the affair in order that the word he had spoken by Ahijah of Shiloh to Jeroboam son of Nebat might be fulfilled.
16When all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, they answered: “What share have we in David? We have no lot in the son of Jesse. Away to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” With that all Israel went off to their homes.
17Rehoboam ruled only over those Israelites who lived in the cities and towns of Judah.
18King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, the commander of the forced levies, but when the Israelites stoned him to death, the king hastily mounted his chariot and fled to Jerusalem.
19From that day to this Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.
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