1 Reis 12:1-4

1 Foi então Roboão para Siquém, porque todo o Israel se congregara ali para fazê-lo rei.

2 E Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, que estava ainda no Egito, para onde fugira da presença do rei Salomão, ouvindo isto, voltou do Egito.

3 E mandaram chamá-lo; Jeroboão e toda a congregação de Israel vieram, e falaram a Roboão, dizendo:

4 Teu pai agravou o nosso jugo; agora, pois, alivia a dura servidão e o pesado juro que teu pai nos impôs, e nós te serviremos.

1 Reis 12:1-4 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 12

This chapter relates Rehoboam's going to Shechem to be made king, and Jeroboam's return from Egypt, 1Ki 12:1,2, the people's request to Rehoboam to be eased of their taxes, as the condition of making him king, 1Ki 12:3,4, his answer to them, after three days, having had the advice both of the old and young men, which latter he followed, and gave in a rough answer, 1Ki 12:5-15, upon which ten tribes revolted from him, and two abode by him, 1Ki 12:16-20, wherefore he meditated a war against the ten tribes, but was forbid by the Lord to engage in it, 1Ki 12:21-24 and Jeroboam, in order to establish his kingdom, and preserve the people from a revolt to the house of David, because of the temple worship at Jerusalem, devised a scheme of idolatrous worship in his own territories, 1Ki 12:25-33.