1 Reyes 12:1-4

División del reino

1 Roboán fue a Siquén porque todos los israelitas se habían reunido allí para proclamarlo rey.

2 De esto se enteró Jeroboán hijo de Nabat, quien al huir del rey Salomón se había establecido en Egipto y aún vivía allí.

3 Cuando lo mandaron a buscar, él y toda la asamblea de Israel fueron a ver a Roboán y le dijeron:

4 —Su padre nos impuso un yugo pesado. Alívienos usted ahora el duro trabajo y el pesado yugo que él nos echó encima; así serviremos a Su Majestad.

1 Reyes 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.