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And spake to them after the counsel of the young men,saying, My fathermade your yokeheavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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Wherefore the kinghearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORDspakebyAhijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
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So when all Israelsaw that the kinghearkened not unto them, the peopleanswered the king,saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house,David. So Israeldeparted unto their tents.
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Then kingRehoboamsentAdoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israelstoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore kingRehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
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And it came to pass, when all Israelheard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David,but the tribe of Judah only.
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And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscorethousand chosen men, which were warriors*, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdomagain to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
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Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel:return every man to his house; for this thingis from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
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If this people go up to dosacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboamking of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboamking of Judah.
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Whereupon the king took counsel, and madetwocalves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
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And Jeroboamordained a feast in the eighthmonth, on the fifteenth*day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel,sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.