1Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.stylusJudges 9:6, 2 Chronicles 10:1, 2 Chronicles 10:19, Judges 9:6, 2 Chronicles 10:12When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.stylus1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 11:40, 2 Chronicles 10:2, 2 Chronicles 10:3, 1 Kings 11:263So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,stylus4“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”stylus1 Samuel 8:11, 1 Samuel 8:18, 1 Samuel 8:11, 1 Samuel 8:18, 1 Kings 4:75Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.stylus1 Kings 12:12, 1 Kings 12:126Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.stylusJob 32:7, Job 12:12, Job 32:7, Job 12:12, Proverbs 27:107They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”stylusProverbs 15:1, Proverbs 15:1, 1 Kings 12:13, 2 Samuel 15:3, 2 Samuel 15:68But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.stylusProverbs 19:20, Proverbs 19:20, 2 Chronicles 10:8, Proverbs 1:30, Proverbs 25:129He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”stylus2 Chronicles 10:9, 2 Chronicles 18:5, 2 Chronicles 18:7, 1 Kings 22:6, 1 Kings 22:810The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!stylusIsaiah 47:6, 2 Samuel 17:7, 2 Samuel 17:13, Proverbs 28:25, Proverbs 10:1411Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”stylusJeremiah 27:11, Ezekiel 2:6, Isaiah 58:6, Revelation 9:3, Revelation 9:1012After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”stylus1 Kings 12:5, 1 Kings 12:5, 2 Chronicles 10:12, 2 Chronicles 10:14, 2 Chronicles 10:1213And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the eldersstylusProverbs 13:20, Proverbs 10:32, Ecclesiastes 10:12, James 3:17, Proverbs 18:2314and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”stylus1 Kings 12:10, 1 Kings 12:11, Exodus 5:5, Exodus 5:9, Exodus 5:1615So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.stylusJudges 14:4, Deuteronomy 2:30, 1 Kings 12:24, Judges 14:4, Deuteronomy 2:3016When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,stylus2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Chronicles 10:16, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:617but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.stylus1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 11:13, 1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 11:13, 2 Chronicles 10:1718Then King Rehoboam sent out Adoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.stylus1 Kings 4:6, 1 Kings 4:6, 2 Samuel 20:24, 1 Kings 5:14, 2 Samuel 20:2419So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.stylus2 Kings 17:21, 2 Kings 17:21, 2 Chronicles 10:19, 2 Chronicles 10:19, Isaiah 7:1720When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.stylus1 Kings 11:32, 1 Kings 11:13, 1 Kings 11:32, 1 Kings 11:13, Hosea 11:1221And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.stylus2 Chronicles 11:1, 2 Chronicles 11:3, 2 Chronicles 11:1, 2 Chronicles 11:3, 2 Chronicles 14:822But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:stylus2 Chronicles 11:2, 2 Chronicles 11:2, 1 Kings 13:4, 1 Kings 13:5, 2 Kings 4:1623“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the peoplestylus1 Kings 12:17, 1 Kings 12:1724that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.stylus1 Kings 12:15, 1 Kings 12:15, 2 Chronicles 11:4, Numbers 14:42, 2 Chronicles 25:725Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.stylusJudges 8:17, Judges 8:17, Judges 8:8, Judges 8:8, Judges 9:4526Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.stylus1 Kings 11:38, John 11:47, John 11:50, Psalms 14:1, Acts 4:1627If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”stylusProverbs 29:25, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 16:6, Deuteronomy 12:1428After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”stylus2 Kings 10:29, Exodus 32:8, Exodus 32:4, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 10:2929One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.stylusGenesis 28:19, Genesis 28:19, Judges 18:27, Judges 18:31, Judges 18:2730And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.stylus2 Kings 17:21, 2 Kings 17:21, 1 Kings 13:34, 1 Kings 13:34, 2 Kings 10:3131Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.stylus1 Kings 13:32, 1 Kings 13:33, 2 Chronicles 13:9, 2 Kings 17:32, 1 Kings 13:3232And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.stylus1 Kings 8:5, Numbers 29:12, Numbers 29:40, Amos 7:10, Amos 7:1333On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.stylus1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:1, Numbers 15:39, Numbers 15:39, 1 Samuel 13:12
