1 Re 12:16

16 E tutto il popolo d’Israele, veduto che il re non gli avea prestato orecchio, rispose al re, e disse: Qual parte abbiamo noi in Davide? noi non abbiamo alcuna ragione di eredità nel figliuolo d’Isai; o Israele, vattene alle tue stanze; provvedi ora, Davide, a casa tua. Ed Israele se ne andò alle sue stanze.

1 Re 12:16 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 12:16

So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them,
&c.] To grant their requests:

the people answered the king, saying, what portion have we in David?
or in his posterity, which are not of our tribes, nor are we obliged to have a king of that family; nor can we expect any benefit or advantage from thence, as may be easily concluded from the rough answer of Rehoboam:

neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse;
so they called David by way of contempt; which was great ingratitude, when he had done such great things for them, and he and his son Solomon had raised them to the pitch of wealth and glory they now enjoyed; these were seditious expressions, and seem to be borrowed from a seditious person in the times of David, ( 2 Samuel 20:1 )

to your tents, O Israel;
signifying it was high time to depart from Rehoboam, and to have nothing to say to him, or do with him, but retire to their habitations, to consider whom to set as king over them:

now see to thine own house, David;
thou son or grandson of David; not his own house and family, and mind his domestic affairs, nor the house of the sanctuary in his tribe, as many of the Jewish writers interpret it; but rather the tribe of Judah, of which he was, and would have him consider to what a narrow compass his kingdom would be brought, who was just now blustering and boasting of his grandeur as a king:

so Israel departed unto their tents;
to their cities, as the Targum, and their habitations there, without recognizing Rehoboam as their king, or swearing allegiance, or giving homage to him as such.

1 Re 12:16 In-Context

14 E parlò al popolo secondo il consiglio de’ giovani, dicendo: Mio padre vi ha posto addosso un grave giogo, ma io lo farò vie più grave; mio padre vi ha castigati con isferze, ma io vi castigherò con flagelli pungenti.

15 Il re adunque non prestò le orecchie al popolo; perciocchè questo era una occasione procedente dal Signore, per adempier la sua parola, la quale egli avea pronunziata, per Ahia Silonita, a Geroboamo, figliuolo di Nebat.

16 E tutto il popolo d’Israele, veduto che il re non gli avea prestato orecchio, rispose al re, e disse: Qual parte abbiamo noi in Davide? noi non abbiamo alcuna ragione di eredità nel figliuolo d’Isai; o Israele, vattene alle tue stanze; provvedi ora, Davide, a casa tua. Ed Israele se ne andò alle sue stanze.

17 Ma, quant’è a’ figliuoli d’Israele, che dimoravano nelle città di Giuda, Roboamo regnò sopra loro.

18 E il re Roboamo mandò a tutti gl’Israeliti Adoram, ch’era sopra i tributi; ma essi lo lapidarono, ed egli morì. E il re Roboamo salì prestamente sopra un carro, per fuggirsene in Gerusalemme.