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So when Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Your father [King Solomon] made our yoke hard (heavy, difficult); so now lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Rehoboam replied, “Come back to me again in three days.” So the people departed. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon [as advisers] while he was alive, asking, “What advice do you give me in answer to these people?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They answered him, saying, “If you are kind to these people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the king rejected the advice which the elders gave him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him [as advisers]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He asked them, “What advice do you give to us regarding the answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The young men who grew up with him told him, “Tell the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us’: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>loins! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, but I will add [more weight] to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I <i>will discipline you</i> with scorpions (extremely painful scourges).’” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So on the third day Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam just as the king had directed, saying, “Return to me on the third day.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The king answered them harshly, for King Rehoboam rejected the counsel of the elders. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He spoke to them in accordance with the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I <i>will discipline you</i> with scorpions.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the king did not listen to the people, for the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>turn of events was from God that the LORD might fulfill His word, which He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When all Israel saw that the king did not listen <i>and</i> pay attention to them, the people answered him, <p class="indent1stline">“What portion do we have in David? <t><p class="indent1"><i>We have</i> no inheritance in the son of Jesse. <t><p class="indent1">Every man to your tents, O Israel; <t><p class="indent1">Now, [Rehoboam, descendant of] David, see to your own house.” <p class="R">So all Israel went to their tents. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But as for the Israelites who lived in Judah’s cities, Rehoboam ruled over them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then King Rehoboam <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>sent Hadoram, who was over the forced labor, and the Israelites stoned him and he died. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his [royal] chariot to escape to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Israel has rebelled against the house of David to this day.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Jeroboam had been living in Egypt under the protection of the pharaoh, Shishak.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> The midsection of the body between the lower ribs and the hips.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> God brought about the revolt of the northern tribes, intending it as a punishment of the house of David for Solomon’s apostasy.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> This evidently was a last-resort effort by Rehoboam to assert control over the Israelites.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>