1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.stylus1 Chronicles 3:10, 1 Kings 4:1, Joshua 24:1, 1 Chronicles 12:38, Joshua 20:72And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt.stylus1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 12:2, 1 Kings 11:26, 1 Kings 11:283And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,stylus1 Kings 12:3, 1 Kings 12:34Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.stylus1 Kings 12:4, 1 Kings 12:4, 1 Kings 4:20, 1 Kings 5:15, Isaiah 47:65And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.stylusProverbs 3:28, 1 Kings 12:5, Proverbs 3:28, 1 Kings 12:56Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?stylusJob 32:7, Job 32:7, Job 8:8, Job 8:9, Proverbs 12:157And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.stylusProverbs 15:1, Proverbs 15:1, 1 Kings 12:7, 1 Kings 12:7, Genesis 49:218But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.stylusProverbs 1:25, 2 Samuel 17:14, Proverbs 1:25, 2 Samuel 17:14, Ecclesiastes 10:29And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?stylus2 Samuel 17:5, 2 Samuel 17:6, 2 Chronicles 10:6, 2 Samuel 17:5, 2 Samuel 17:610And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;stylus1 Kings 12:10, 1 Kings 12:11, Proverbs 28:25, 2 Samuel 17:7, 2 Samuel 17:1311If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.stylus1 Samuel 8:18, Exodus 5:5, Exodus 5:9, Exodus 1:13, Exodus 1:1412So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.stylus2 Chronicles 10:5, 1 Kings 12:12, 1 Kings 12:15, 2 Chronicles 10:5, 1 Kings 12:1213And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,stylusGenesis 42:30, 1 Samuel 25:10, 1 Samuel 25:11, Genesis 42:7, 2 Chronicles 10:814But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.stylus2 Chronicles 22:4, 2 Chronicles 22:5, Proverbs 17:14, Ecclesiastes 10:16, Proverbs 12:515So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.stylus1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Kings 11:29, 1 Kings 11:39, 1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Kings 11:2916And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.stylus2 Chronicles 10:19, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Chronicles 10:19, 2 Samuel 20:1, Psalms 76:1017But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.stylus1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 12:17, 2 Chronicles 11:1, 1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 12:1718Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.stylus1 Kings 5:14, 1 Kings 5:14, 1 Kings 4:6, 1 Kings 4:6, 2 Chronicles 24:2119So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.stylus1 Kings 12:19, 1 Kings 12:20, 2 Chronicles 5:9, Joshua 4:9, 2 Chronicles 10:16