1 Koningen 12:22-24

22 Doch het woord van God geschiedde tot Semaja, den man Gods, zeggende:

23 Zeg tot Rehabeam, den zoon van Salomo, den koning van Juda, en tot het ganse huis van Juda en Benjamin, en overige des volks, zeggende:

24 Zo zegt de HEERE: Gij zult niet optrekken, noch strijden tegen uw broederen, de kinderen Israels; een ieder kere weder tot zijn huis, want deze zaak is van Mij geschied. En zij hoorden het woord des HEEREN, en keerden weder, om weg te trekken naar het woord des HEEREN.

1 Koningen 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.