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The First Book of Kings 12

12 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all of Israel had come to Shechem to make him reign. 2 And it happened, when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, heard (now he, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from the face of King Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelled in Egypt), 3 that they sent and they called for him. And Jeroboam came, and all of the assembly of Israel, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, 4 “Your father made our yoke hard. But you, now make it lighter than the hard service of your father and than his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.” 5 And he said to them, “Go until three days, then return to me.” So the people went.

6 And King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had been standing to the face of Solomon his father while he was alive, saying, “How are you advising to answer this people with a word?” 7 And they spoke to him, saying, “If today you will be a servant to this people and serve them and you answer them and speak good words to them, then they will be servants to you all of the days.” 8 But he forsook the counsel of the elders that they had counseled him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him who were standing to his face. 9 And he said to them, “How are you advising that we should answer with a word this people who spoke to me saying, ‘Make lighter than the yoke that your father put on us’?” 10 And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make light from upon us.’ Thus you shall speak to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father. 11 And now, my father loaded a heavy yoke on you, but I, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I, I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”

12 And Jeroboam and all of the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had spoken, saying, “Return to me on the third day.” 13 And the king answered the people harshly, and he forsook the counsel of the elders that they had counseled him. 14 And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I, I will discipline you with scorpions.” 15 And the king did not listen to the people, for the turn was from with Yahweh, so that he might raise up his word, which Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

16 And all of Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, and the people answered the king with a word, saying, “What portion is to us in David? And no inheritance in the son of Jesse! To your tents, Israel! Now see your house, David.” And Israel went to its tents.

17 (But the sons of Israel, the ones dwelling in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.) 18 And King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, but all of Israel stoned him with stone, and he died. And King Rehoboam strengthened himself to go up into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem. 19 And Israel has rebelled against the house of David to this day. 20 And it happened, when all of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and they made him reign over all of Israel. One was not after the house of David except the tribe of Judah by itself.

21 And Rehoboam entered Jerusalem, and he assembled all of the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen makers of war, to fight with the house of Israel to return the kingdom to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon. 22 But the word of God was to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 23 “Speak to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Judah, and to all of the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying, 24 ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not go up and you shall not fight with your brothers, the sons of Israel. Return, a man to his house, for this thing has been from with me.” ’ ” And they heard the word of Yahweh, and they returned to go, according to the word of Yahweh.

25 And Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and he dwelled in it. And he went out from there, and he built Penuel. 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David. 27 If this people goes up to make sacrifices in the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their master, to Rehoboam, the king of Judah. And they will kill me, and they will return to Rehoboam, the king of Judah.” 28 And the king consulted, and he made two calves of gold. And he said to them, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Behold your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!” 29 And he set one in Bethel, and he put one in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin, and the people went to the face of the one as far as Dan. 31 And he made a house of high places. And he made priests from the extremities of the people, who were not from the sons of Levi. 32 And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered on the altar. Thus he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he stationed at Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. 33 And he offered on the altar that he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised by himself. And he made a festival for the sons of Israel, and he offered on the altar to burn incense.

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The First Book of Kings 12

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