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    2Chronicles 10

    1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, because all of Israel went there to install him as king.ISV — 2Chronicles 10:1

    2 Nebat’s son Jeroboam heard about it in Egypt, where he had fled to get away from Solomon the king. Jeroboam returned from EgyptISV — 2Chronicles 10:2

    3 after being summoned. When Jeroboam and all of Israel arrived, they spoke to Rehoboam,ISV — 2Chronicles 10:3

    4 “Your father made our burdens unbearable. a10:4 Lit. our yoke heavy Therefore you must lighten your father’s requirements and his heavy burden that he placed on us, and we’ll serve you.”ISV — 2Chronicles 10:4

    5 “Come back again in three days,” Rehoboam b10:5 Lit. He told them. So the people leftISV — 2Chronicles 10:5

    6 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?”ISV — 2Chronicles 10:6

    7 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.”ISV — 2Chronicles 10:7

    8 But Rehoboam c10:8 Lit. he 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 d10:8 Lit. and stood before him.ISV — 2Chronicles 10:8

    9 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’?”ISV — 2Chronicles 10:9

    10 “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 e10:10 Lit. him replied. “Tell them ‘My little finger will be thicker than my father’s whole body! f10:10 Lit. father’s loinISV — 2Chronicles 10:10

    11 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 g10:11 The Heb. lacks to do so with scorpions!’”ISV — 2Chronicles 10:11

    12 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.”ISV — 2Chronicles 10:12

    13 But the king answered them strictly and ignored the counsel of his elders.ISV — 2Chronicles 10:13

    14 Instead, Rehoboam h10:14 Lit. he 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!”ISV — 2Chronicles 10:14

    15 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.ISV — 2Chronicles 10:15

    16 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, i10:16 Lit. Each man to his tent Israel! David, take care of your own household!’ So all of Israel left for home. j10:16 Lit. left for their tentsISV — 2Chronicles 10:16

    17 And so Rehoboam ruled over the Israelis who lived in the cities of Judah.ISV — 2Chronicles 10:17

    18 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.ISV — 2Chronicles 10:18

    19 That’s how Israel came to be in rebellion against David’s dynasty to this day.ISV — 2Chronicles 10:19

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