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Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he placed on us, and we will serve you.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>They answered him, “If you will be kind to this people and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>But he rejected the advice that the older men gave him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus should you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must lighten it for us’; tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had said, “Come to me again the third day.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the older men; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>he spoke to them in accordance with the advice of the young men, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>So the king did not listen to the people, because it was a turn of affairs brought about by God so that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> might fulfill his word, which he had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>When all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“What share do we have in David?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Each of you to your tents, O Israel!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Look now to your own house, O David.”</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none"><span class="text">So all Israel departed to their tents. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who were living in the cities of Judah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>When King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, the people of Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam hurriedly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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