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and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, [a] I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
12
After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
13
And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
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and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
15
So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
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When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
Footnotes 1
[a].
LXX and many Hebrew manuscripts (see also 1 Kings 12:14); MT Whereas I made your yoke heavy
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