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The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

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Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [supplied: will chastise you] with scorpions.

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The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,

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and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I [supplied: will chastise you] with scorpions.

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So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. So all Israel departed to their tents.

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Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

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When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

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Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

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He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

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Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam,

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and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

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and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

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and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.

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He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.

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For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office to Yahweh;

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After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

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So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

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Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [supplied: and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

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and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.

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After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

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Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

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Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, [supplied: even] the prince among his brothers; for [supplied: he was minded] to make him king.

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It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.

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He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

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