1 Kings 12
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i Rehoboam went to j Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
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And as soon as k Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for l he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
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And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,
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m "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you."
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He said to them, n "Go away for three days, then come again to me." So the people went away.
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Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?"
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And they said to him, "If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever."
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But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
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And 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'?"
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And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,' thus shall you say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's thighs.
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And now, whereas m 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.'"
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So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, o "Come to me again the third day."
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And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him,
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he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, m "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."
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So the king did not listen to the people, for p it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which q the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
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And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. r To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel went to their tents.
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But Rehoboam reigned over s the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.
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Then King Rehoboam sent t Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
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u So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
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And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but v the tribe of Judah only.
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w When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
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But the word of God came to x Shemaiah the man of God:
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"Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the y rest of the people,
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'Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, z for this thing is from me.'" So they listened to the word of the Lord and went home again, according to the word of the Lord.
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Then Jeroboam a built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and b built Penuel.
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And Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David.
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If this people c go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah."
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So the king took counsel and d made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. e Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
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And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
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Then f this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.
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He also made g temples on high places and h appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.
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And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like i the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel j the priests of the high places that he had made.
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He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar k to make offerings.
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1 Kings 12:1 - 19
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
2 Chronicles 10:1 - 19
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
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Judges 9:6
And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.
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1 Kings 11:26
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
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1 Kings 11:40
Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
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1 Kings 4:7
Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.
1 Kings 4:22
Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal.
1 Kings 9:15
And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
1 Samuel 8:11 - 18
He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
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1 Kings 12:12
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, "Come to me again the third day.
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1 Kings 12:4
"Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you."
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1 Kings 12:5
He said to them, "Go away for three days, then come again to me." So the people went away.
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1 Kings 12:4
"Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you."
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1 Kings 12:24
Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, for this thing is from me.'" So they listened to the word of the Lord and went home again, according to the word of the Lord.
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1 Kings 11:11
Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.
1 Kings 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes
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2 Samuel 20:1
Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!
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1 Kings 11:13
However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.
1 Kings 11:36
Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
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1 Kings 4:6
Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
1 Kings 5:14
And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.
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2 Kings 17:21
When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord and made them commit great sin.
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1 Kings 11:13
However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.
1 Kings 11:32
(but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel).
1 Kings 11:36
Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
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1 Kings 12:21 - 24
When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
2 Chronicles 11:1 - 4
When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
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2 Chronicles 12:5
Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the Lord, 'You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.'
2 Chronicles 12:7
When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:15
Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
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1 Kings 12:17
But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.
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1 Kings 12:15
So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
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Judges 9:45
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.
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Judges 8:17
And he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
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Deuteronomy 12:5 - 6
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
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2 Kings 10:29
But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Je...
2 Kings 17:16
And they abandoned all the commandments of the ...
2 Chronicles 11:15
And he appointed his own priests for the high p...
2 Chronicles 13:8
And now you think to withstand the kingdom of t...
Hosea 8:5 - 6
I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger b...
Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf...
Hosea 13:2
And now they sin more and more, and make for th...
1 Kings 14:9
But you have done evil above all who were befor...
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Exodus 32:4
And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
Exodus 32:8
They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'
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1 Kings 13:34
And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.
2 Kings 17:21
When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord and made them commit great sin.
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1 Kings 13:32
For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.
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1 Kings 13:33
After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.
2 Kings 17:32
They also feared the Lord and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.
2 Chronicles 11:14 - 15
For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 13:9
Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.
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Leviticus 23:33 - 34
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
Numbers 29:12
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days.
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1 Kings 13:2
And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the Lord : 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'
Amos 7:13
But never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.
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1 Kings 13:1
And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.
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