The Second Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem
to make him king. {10:2} It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat
heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence
of king Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. {10:3} They
sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke
to Rehoboam, saying, {10:4} "Your father made our yoke grievous: now
therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy
yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you."
{10:5} He said to them, "Come again to me after three days."
The people departed. {10:6} King Rehoboam took counsel with the old
men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived,
saying, "What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?"
{10:7} They spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to this people,
and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your
servants forever."
{10:8} But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had
given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with
him, who stood before him. {10:9} 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 put on us lighter?'"
{10:10} The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him,
saying, "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying,
'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;' thus you
shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's
waist. {10:11} Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I
will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.'"
{10:12} So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third
day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day."
{10:13} The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the
counsel of the old men, {10:14} and spoke to them after the counsel of
the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add
to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you
with scorpions."
{10:15} So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought
about of God, that the LORD might establish his word, which he spoke
by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. {10:16} 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.
{10:17} But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of
Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. {10:18} 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 himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. {10:19}
So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
{11:1} When Rehoboam had 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. {11:2} But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of
God, saying, {11:3} "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of
Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, {11:4} 'Thus
says the LORD, "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 the LORD, and returned from going against
Jeroboam. {11:5} Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for
defense in Judah. {11:6} He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
{11:7} Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam, {11:8} and Gath, and Mareshah,
and Ziph, {11:9} and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, {11:10} and
Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin,
fortified cities. {11:11} He fortified the strongholds, and put
captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine. {11:12} He put
shields and spears in every city, and made them exceeding strong.
Judah and Benjamin belonged to him. {11:13} The priests and the
Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their
border. {11:14} 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 the
LORD; {11:15} and he appointed him priests for the high places, and
for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made. {11:16}
After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts
to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to
the LORD, the God of their fathers. {11:17} 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.
{11:18} Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth
the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of
Jesse; {11:19} and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
{11:20} After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore
him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. {11:21} 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.) {11:22} Rehoboam
appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his
brothers; for he intended to make him king. {11:23} He dealt wisely,
and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and
Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance.
He sought for them many wives.
{12:1} It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established,
and he was strong, that he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel
with him. {12:2} It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had
trespassed against the LORD, {12:3} with twelve hundred chariots, and
sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with
him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. {12:4}
He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to
Jerusalem. {12:5} Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to
the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because
of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, 'You have forsaken
me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.'"
{12:6} Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves;
and they said, "The LORD is righteous."
{12:7} When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of
the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "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.
{12:8} Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my
service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."
{12:9} So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took
away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the
king's house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of
gold which Solomon had made. {12:10} King Rehoboam made in their place
shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of
the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. {12:11} It was so,
that as often as the king entered into the house of the LORD, the
guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.
{12:12} When he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from
him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there
were good things found. {12:13} So king Rehoboam strengthened himself
in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the
city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put
his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
{12:14} He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to
seek the LORD. {12:15} Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last,
aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of
Iddo the seer, after the way of genealogies? There were wars between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. {12:16} Rehoboam slept with his
fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son
reigned in his place.
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