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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Chronicles 10 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > 2 Chronicles 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/9.htm" title="2 Chronicles 9">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 10 <a href="../2_chronicles/11.htm" title="2 Chronicles 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/2_chronicles/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Rehoboam’s Foolish Choices</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/1_kings/12.htm">1 Kings 12:1-19</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, because all of Israel went there to install him as king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Nebat’s son Jeroboam heard about it in Egypt, where he had fled to get away from Solomon the king. Jeroboam returned from Egypt <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>after being summoned. When Jeroboam and all of Israel arrived, they spoke to Rehoboam, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Your father made our burdens unbearable.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:4 Lit. our yoke heavy">a</a></span> Therefore you must lighten your father’s requirements and his heavy burden that he placed on us, and we’ll serve you.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Come back again in three days,” Rehoboam<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:5 Lit. He">b</a></span> told them. So the people left <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>while King Rehoboam conferred with his advisors who had worked with his father Solomon during his administration. He asked them, “What is your advice as to what response I should return to these people?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In reply, they told him, “If you will be kind to this people, please them, and speak appropriately to them with kind words, they’ll serve you forever.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But Rehoboam<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:8 Lit. he">c</a></span> ignored the counsel that his elder advisors had given him. Instead, he consulted the younger men who had grown up with him and worked for<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:8 Lit. and stood before">d</a></span> him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As a result, he asked them, “What’s your advice, so we can give an answer to these people who have asked me, ‘Please lighten the burden that your father put on us’?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“This is what you should tell the people who asked you ‘Your father made our burden heavy, but you must make it lighter for us!’” the young men who had grown up with Rehoboam<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:10 Lit. him">e</a></span> replied. “Tell them ‘My little finger will be thicker than my father’s whole body!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:10 Lit. father’s loin">f</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Not only that, but since my father loaded you down heavily, I’m going to add to that burden. If my father disciplined you with whips, I’m going to do so<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:11 The Heb. lacks to do so">g</a></span> with scorpions!’”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So Jeroboam and all the people went back to Rehoboam on the third day, just as they had been directed when the king said, “Come back again in three days.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But the king answered them strictly and ignored the counsel of his elders. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Instead, Rehoboam<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:14 Lit. he">h</a></span> spoke to them along the lines of what the younger men suggested. He told them “My father burdened you heavily, but I will add to that burden. If my father disciplined you with whips, I will, too—with scorpions!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The king would not listen to the people because the turn of events was from God, so that the LORD might fulfill his prediction that he spoke through Nebat’s son Ahijah the Shilonite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>All of Israel—since the king wasn’t going to listen to them—the people responded to the king, “What’s the point in following David? We have no inheritance in the descendants of Jesse. Let’s go home,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:16 Lit. Each man to his tent">i</a></span> Israel! David, take care of your own household!’ So all of Israel left for home.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:16 Lit. left for their tents">j</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And so Rehoboam ruled over the Israelis who lived in the cities of Judah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was in charge of conscripted labor, but the Israelis stoned him to death, and King Rehoboam had to jump in his chariot and flee back in a hurry to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>That’s how Israel came to be in rebellion against David’s dynasty to this day.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 10:4 Lit. <i>our yoke heavy</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 10:5 Lit. <i>He</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 10:8 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 10:8 Lit. <i>and stood before</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 10:10 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 10:10 Lit. <i>father’s loin</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 10:11 The Heb. lacks <i>to do so</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 10:14 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 10:16 Lit. <i>Each man to his tent</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 10:16 Lit. <i>left for their tents</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_chronicles/9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_chronicles/11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/2_chronicles/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>