1 Kings 12:12

12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered: "Return to me on the third day."

1 Kings 12:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 12:12

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
&c.] Jeroboam came to him at the head of the people, being the head of the faction, and designed for their king:

as the king had appointed, saying, come to me again the third day;
see ( 1 Kings 12:5 ) .

1 Kings 12:12 In-Context

10 Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, "This is what you should say to these people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us!' This is what you should tell them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins!

11 Although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.' "

12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered: "Return to me on the third day."

13 Then the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice the elders had given him

14 and spoke to them according to the young men's advice: "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips."