H0834A–אֲשֶׁר–a.sher

He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “which”אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”

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

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “who”אֲשֶׁר֩ 'a.Sher “which”

The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

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

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “which”

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

אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “who”

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “who”

Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “which”אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”

He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.

אֲשֶׁ֖ר 'a.Sher “which”אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”

It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. His hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to him.

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “which”אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “which”

The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of Yahweh.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

for so was it charged me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he came to Bethel.

אֲשֶׁ֛ר 'a.Sher “which”

Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they told to their father.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “which”

Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.

אֲשֶׁ֤ר 'a.Sher “which”אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”

He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? He said, I am.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”

for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”

It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back;

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “who”

and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.

אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “which”

It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the donkey, [ergänzt: to wit], for the prophet whom he had brought back.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “whom”

Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

אֲשֶׁ֛ר 'a.Sher “which”

When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him.

אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “who”אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “who”אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

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