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thicker than my father’s waist! And now, where- Me.” ’ ” Therefore they obeyed the word of the
as my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add LORD, and turned back, according to the word
to your yoke; my father chastised you with of the LORD.
whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!’ ” 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to mountains of Ephraim, and dwelt there. Also
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Rehoboam the third day, as the king had he went out from there and built Penuel. And
directed, saying, “Come back to me the third Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom
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day.” Then the king answered the people may return to the house of David: If these
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roughly, and rejected the advice which the people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of
elders had given him; and he spoke to them
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according to the advice of the young men, say-
ing, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I
will add to your yoke; my father chastised you 12:26 return to the house of David. The Lord
with whips, but I will chastise you with had ordained a political,not a religious,division
scourges!” So the king did not listen to the of Solomon’s kingdom.The Lord had promised
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people; for the turn of events was from the LORD, Jeroboam political control of the 10 northern
that He might fulfill His word, which the LORD tribes (11:31,35,37).However, Jeroboam was to
had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to religiously follow the Mosaic Law, which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat. demanded that he follow the Lord’s sacrificial
16 Now when all Israel saw that the king did system at the temple in Jerusalem (11:38).
not listen to them, the people answered the Having received the kingdom from God, he
king, saying: should have relied on divine protection, but
he did not. Seeking to keep his subjects from
“What share have we in David? being influenced by Rehoboam when they
We have no inheritance in the son of went to Jerusalem to worship, he set up wor-
Jesse. ship in the north (vv. 27,28).
To your tents, O Israel!
Now, see to your own house, O David!”
the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this
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So Israel departed to their tents. But people will turn back to their lord, Rehoboam
Rehoboam reigned over the children of Israel king of Judah, and they will kill me and go
who dwelt in the cities of Judah. back to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who 28 Therefore the king asked advice, made
was in charge of the revenue; but all Israel two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is
stoned him with stones, and he died. too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here
Therefore King Rehoboam mounted his char- are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up
iot in haste to flee to Jerusalem. So Israel has from the land of Egypt!” And he set up one in
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been in rebellion against the house of David to Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Now this
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this day. thing became a sin, for the people went to wor-
20 Now it came to pass when all Israel heard ship before the one as far as Dan. He made
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that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for shrines on the high places, and made priests
him and called him to the congregation, and from every class of people, who were not of
made him king over all Israel. There was none the sons of Levi.
who followed the house of David, but the tribe 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth
of Judah only. day of the eighth month, like the feast that was
21 And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So
he assembled all the house of Judah with the he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that
tribe of Benjamin, one hundred and eighty he had made. And at Bethel he installed the
thousand chosen men who were warriors, to priests of the high places which he had made.
fight against the house of Israel, that he might 33 So he made offerings on the altar which he
restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the
Solomon. But the word of God came to eighth month, in the month which he had de-
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Shemaiah the man of God, saying, “Speak to vised in his own heart. And he ordained a
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Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, feast for the children of Israel, and offered sac-
to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to rifices on the altar and burned incense.
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the rest of the people, saying, ‘Thus says the Psalm 69:5–15
LORD: “You shall not go up nor fight against
your brethren the children of Israel. Let every 5 O God, You know my foolishness;
man return to his house, for this thing is from And my sins are not hidden from You.
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