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[h=1](1 Kings 12:1): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][h=3]King Rehoboam Acts Foolishly[/h]12 Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
[h=1](2 Kings 12:2): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]2 Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
1 Kings 12:2 (NASB) [FONT="]Now [/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard [/FONT]of it, [a]he was living in Egypt (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon)
"Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you."
1 Kings 12:2 (NASB) Now when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, [a]he was living in Egypt (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon)
Quick apology, my computer had a mind of its own for a second...Sorry. I meant 1 Kings not 2 Kings.....( I also noticed how you even used the translation I used as you are very graceful) ...next> 1 Kings 12:6
(1 Kings 12:6): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)
6 King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you counsel me to answer this people?”
And they spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."
[FONT="]But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.[/FONT]
1 Kings 12:9, "And he said to them, “What advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?”"
[FONT="]The young men who had grown up with him replied, “These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.[/FONT]
And now, whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!' "
[FONT="]Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings 12:15 (KJV)
Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.