1 Rois 12:22-24

22 Mais la parole de Dieu fut adressée à Shémaeja, homme de Dieu, en ces termes:

23 Parle à Roboam, fils de Salomon, roi de Juda, et à toute la maison de Juda et de Benjamin, et au reste du peuple, et dis-leur:

24 Ainsi a dit l'Éternel: Vous ne monterez point et vous ne combattrez point contre vos frères, les enfants d'Israël. Retournez-vous-en, chacun dans sa maison, car ceci vient de moi. Et ils obéirent à la parole de l'Éternel, et ils s'en retournèrent, selon la parole de l'Éternel.

1 Rois 12:22-24 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.