1Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.stylus1 Chronicles 3:10, 1 Kings 4:1, Joshua 24:1, 1 Chronicles 12:38, Joshua 20:72When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.stylus1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 12:2, 1 Kings 11:26, 1 Kings 11:283So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,stylus1 Kings 12:3, 1 Kings 12:34“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 Kings 12:4, 1 Kings 12:4, 1 Kings 4:20, 1 Kings 5:15, Isaiah 47:65Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.stylusProverbs 3:28, 1 Kings 12:5, Proverbs 3:28, 1 Kings 12:56Then 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 32:7, Job 8:8, Job 8:9, Proverbs 12:157They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”stylusProverbs 15:1, Proverbs 15:1, 1 Kings 12:7, 1 Kings 12:7, Genesis 49:218But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.stylusProverbs 1:25, 2 Samuel 17:14, Proverbs 1:25, 2 Samuel 17:14, Ecclesiastes 10:29He 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 Samuel 17:5, 2 Samuel 17:6, 2 Chronicles 10:6, 2 Samuel 17:5, 2 Samuel 17:610The 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!stylus1 Kings 12:10, 1 Kings 12:11, Proverbs 28:25, 2 Samuel 17:7, 2 Samuel 17:1311Whereas 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.’”stylus1 Samuel 8:18, Exodus 5:5, Exodus 5:9, Exodus 1:13, Exodus 1:1412After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me 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 answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the eldersstylusGenesis 42:30, 1 Samuel 25:10, 1 Samuel 25:11, Genesis 42:7, 2 Chronicles 10:814and 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.”stylus2 Chronicles 22:4, 2 Chronicles 22:5, Proverbs 17:14, Ecclesiastes 10:16, Proverbs 12:515So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.stylus1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Kings 11:29, 1 Kings 11:39, 1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Kings 11:2916When 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 all the Israelites went home,stylus2 Chronicles 10:19, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Chronicles 10:19, 2 Samuel 20:1, Psalms 76:1017but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.stylus1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 12:17, 2 Chronicles 11:1, 1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 12:1718Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.stylus1 Kings 5:14, 1 Kings 5:14, 1 Kings 4:6, 1 Kings 4:6, 2 Chronicles 24:2119So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.stylus1 Kings 12:19, 1 Kings 12:20, 2 Chronicles 5:9, Joshua 4:9, 2 Chronicles 10:16