The Second Book of Divre Hayamim, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Rechav`am went to Shekhem; for all Yisra'el were come to
Shekhem to make him king. {10:2} It happened, when Yarov`am the son of
Nevat heard of it, (for he was in Mitzrayim, where he had fled from
the presence of king Shlomo,) that Yarov`am returned out of Mitzrayim.
{10:3} They sent and called him; and Yarov`am and all Yisra'el came,
and they spoke to Rechav`am, 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 Rechav`am took counsel with the old men, who had
stood before Shlomo his father while he yet lived, saying, What
counsel give you 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 give you,
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? {10:10}
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. {10:11} 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 [will chastise you]
with scorpions. {10:12} So Yarov`am and all the people came to
Rechav`am the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again
the third day. {10:13} The king answered them roughly; and king
Rechav`am 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 thereto: 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 Achiyah the Shiloni
to Yarov`am the son of Nevat. {10:16} When all Yisra'el 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
Yishai: every man to your tents, Yisra'el: now see to your own house,
David. So all Yisra'el departed to their tents. {10:17} But as for the
children of Yisra'el who lived in the cities of Yehudah, Rechav`am
reigned over them. {10:18} Then king Rechav`am sent Hadoram, who was
over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Yisra'el
stoned him to death with stones. King Rechav`am made speed to get him
up to his chariot, to flee to Yerushalayim. {10:19} So Yisra'el
rebelled against the house of David to this day.
{11:1} When Rechav`am was come to Yerushalayim, he assembled the
house of Yehudah and Binyamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men,
who were warriors, to fight against Yisra'el, to bring the kingdom
again to Rechav`am. {11:2} But the word of the LORD came to Shemayah
the man of God, saying, {11:3} Speak to Rechav`am the son of Shlomo,
king of Yehudah, and to all Yisra'el in Yehudah and Binyamin, 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 Yarov`am. {11:5} Rechav`am lived in Yerushalayim, and built
cities for defense in Yehudah. {11:6} He built Beit-Lechem, and `Etam,
and Tekoa, {11:7} Beit-Tzur, and Sokho, and `Adullam, {11:8} and Gat,
and Mareshah, and Zif, {11:9} and Adorayim, and Lakhish, and `Azeka,
{11:10} and Tzor`ah, and Ayalon, and Hevron, which are in Yehudah and
in Binyamin, fortified cities. {11:11} He fortified the strongholds,
and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.
{11:12} In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them
exceeding strong. Yehudah and Binyamin belonged to him. {11:13} The
[1>]Kohanim[<1] and the Levites who were in all Yisra'el resorted to
him out of all their border. {11:14} For the Levites left their
suburbs and their possession, and came to Yehudah and Yerushalayim:
for Yarov`am and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute
the [2>]Kohen[<2]'s office to the LORD; {11:15} and he appointed him
[3>]Kohanim[<3] 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 Yisra'el, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God
of Yisra'el, came to Yerushalayim to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of
their fathers. {11:17} So they strengthened the kingdom of Yehudah,
and made Rechav`am the son of Shlomo strong, three years; for they
walked three years in the way of David and Shlomo. {11:18} Rechav`am
took him a wife, Machalat the daughter of Yerimot the son of David,
[and of] Avichayil the daughter of Eli'av the son of Yishai; {11:19}
and she bore him sons: Ye`ush, and Shemaryahu, and Zaham. {11:20}
After her he took Ma`akhah the daughter of Avshalom; and she bore him
Aviyah, and `Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomit. {11:21} Rechav`am loved
Ma`akhah the daughter of Avshalom 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}
Rechav`am appointed Aviyah the son of Ma`akhah to be chief, [even] the
prince among his brothers; for [he was minded] to make him king.
{11:23} He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all
the lands of Yehudah and Binyamin, 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 Rechav`am was established,
and he was strong, that he forsook the law of the LORD, and all
Yisra'el with him. {12:2} It happened in the fifth year of king
Rechav`am, that Shishak king of Mitzrayim came up against
Yerushalayim, 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 Mitzrayim: the Luvim, the
Sukkiyim, and the Kushim. {12:4} He took the fortified cities which
pertained to Yehudah, and came to Yerushalayim. {12:5} Now Shemayah
the prophet came to Rechav`am, and to the princes of Yehudah, who were
gathered together to Yerushalayim 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 Yisra'el
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 Shemayah, 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 Yerushalayim 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 Mitzrayim came up against Yerushalayim, and took away
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the
king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold
which Shlomo had made. {12:10} King Rechav`am 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-chamber. {12:12} When he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD
turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in
Yehudah there were good things [found]. {12:13} So king Rechav`am
strengthened himself in Yerushalayim, and reigned: for Rechav`am was
forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Yerushalayim, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all
the tribes of Yisra'el, to put his name there: and his mother's name
was Na`amah the `Ammonite. {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
Rechav`am, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of
Shemayah the prophet and of `Iddo the seer, after the manner of
genealogies? There were wars between Rechav`am and Yarov`am
continually. {12:16} Rechav`am slept with his fathers, and was buried
in the city of David: and Aviyah his son reigned in his place.
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Footnotes:
[1] {11:13} priests
[2] {11:14} priest
[3] {11:15} priests
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