1And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled, to make him king.

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1 Chronicles 3:10, 1 Kings 4:1, Joshua 24:1, 1 Chronicles 12:38, Joshua 20:7

2And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt, (for he was fled thither from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he returned.

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1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 12:2, 1 Kings 11:26, 1 Kings 11:28

3And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:

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1 Kings 12:3, 1 Kings 12:3

4Thy father oppressed with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.

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1 Kings 12:4, 1 Kings 12:4, 1 Kings 4:20, 1 Kings 5:15, Isaiah 47:6

5And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,

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Proverbs 3:28, 1 Kings 12:5, Proverbs 3:28, 1 Kings 12:5

6He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?

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Job 32:7, Job 32:7, Job 8:8, Job 8:9, Proverbs 12:15

7And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.

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Proverbs 15:1, Proverbs 15:1, 1 Kings 12:7, 1 Kings 12:7, Genesis 49:21

8But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, and began to treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his train.

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Proverbs 1:25, 2 Samuel 17:14, Proverbs 1:25, 2 Samuel 17:14, Ecclesiastes 10:2

9And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father laid upon us?

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2 Samuel 17:5, 2 Samuel 17:6, 2 Chronicles 10:6, 2 Samuel 17:5, 2 Samuel 17:6

10But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.

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1 Kings 12:10, 1 Kings 12:11, Proverbs 28:25, 2 Samuel 17:7, 2 Samuel 17:13

11My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more weight to it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.

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1 Samuel 8:18, Exodus 5:5, Exodus 5:9, Exodus 1:13, Exodus 1:14

12So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as he commanded them.

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2 Chronicles 10:5, 1 Kings 12:12, 1 Kings 12:15, 2 Chronicles 10:5, 1 Kings 12:12

13And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the ancients.

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Genesis 42:30, 1 Samuel 25:10, 1 Samuel 25:11, Genesis 42:7, 2 Chronicles 10:8

14And he spoke according to the advice of the young men: My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.

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2 Chronicles 22:4, 2 Chronicles 22:5, Proverbs 17:14, Ecclesiastes 10:16, Proverbs 12:5

15And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the will of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.

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1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Kings 11:29, 1 Kings 11:39, 1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Kings 11:29

16And all the people upon the king's speaking roughly, said thus unto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai. Return to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David feed thy own house. And Israel went away to their dwellings.

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2 Chronicles 10:19, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Chronicles 10:19, 2 Samuel 20:1, Psalms 76:10

17But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda.

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1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 12:17, 2 Chronicles 11:1, 1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 12:17

18And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes, and the children of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made haste to get up into his chariot, and fled into Jerusalem.

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1 Kings 5:14, 1 Kings 5:14, 1 Kings 4:6, 1 Kings 4:6, 2 Chronicles 24:21

19And Israel revolted from the house of David unto this day.

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1 Kings 12:19, 1 Kings 12:20, 2 Chronicles 5:9, Joshua 4:9, 2 Chronicles 10:16