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    1. The people of northern Israel asked King Rehoboam to lighten the burdens imposed by his father Solomon, promising loyalty in return. 2. Rehoboam consulted older, wiser advisers who recommended agreeing to lighten the burdens to gain the people's loyalty, but he instead consulted younger inexperienced advisers who told him to increase the burdens. 3. When Rehoboam rejected the people's request and threatened even harsher treatment, the northern tribes rebelled, leaving Rehoboam as king only of the southern kingdom of Judah.

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    1. The people of northern Israel asked King Rehoboam to lighten the burdens imposed by his father Solomon, promising loyalty in return. 2. Rehoboam consulted older, wiser advisers who recommended agreeing to lighten the burdens to gain the people's loyalty, but he instead consulted younger inexperienced advisers who told him to increase the burdens. 3. When Rehoboam rejected the people's request and threatened even harsher treatment, the northern tribes rebelled, leaving Rehoboam as king only of the southern kingdom of Judah.

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    1. The people of northern Israel asked King Rehoboam to lighten the burdens imposed by his father Solomon, promising loyalty in return. 2. Rehoboam consulted older, wiser advisers who recommended agreeing to lighten the burdens to gain the people's loyalty, but he instead consulted younger inexperienced advisers who told him to increase the burdens. 3. When Rehoboam rejected the people's request and threatened even harsher treatment, the northern tribes rebelled, leaving Rehoboam as king only of the southern kingdom of Judah.

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    1. The people of northern Israel asked King Rehoboam to lighten the burdens imposed by his father Solomon, promising loyalty in return. 2. Rehoboam consulted older, wiser advisers who recommended agreeing to lighten the burdens to gain the people's loyalty, but he instead consulted younger inexperienced advisers who told him to increase the burdens. 3. When Rehoboam rejected the people's request and threatened even harsher treatment, the northern tribes rebelled, leaving Rehoboam as king only of the southern kingdom of Judah.

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    1 KINGS 12

    12 Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all the people of northern Israel had gathered to
    make him king. 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had gone to Egypt to escape from
    King Solomon, heard this news, he returned from Egypt. 3 The people of the northern
    tribes sent for him, and then they all went together to Rehoboam and said to
    him, 4 “Your father Solomon treated us harshly and placed heavy burdens on us. If you
    make these burdens lighter and make life easier for us, we will be your loyal subjects.”

    “Come back in three days and I will give you my answer,” he replied. So they left.
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    King Rehoboam consulted the older men who had served as his father Solomon's
    advisers. “What answer do you advise me to give these people?” he asked.
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    They replied, “If you want to serve this people well, give a favorable answer to their
    request, and they will always serve you loyally.”
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    But he ignored the advice of the older men and went instead to the young men who
    had grown up with him and who were now his advisers. 9 “What do you advise me to
    do?” he asked. “What shall I say to the people who are asking me to make their burdens
    lighter?”
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    They replied, “This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my
    father's waist!’ 11 Tell them, ‘My father placed heavy burdens on you; I will make them
    even heavier. He beat you with whips; I'll flog you with bullwhips!’”
    Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to King Rehoboam, as he had
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    instructed them. 13 The king ignored the advice of the older men and spoke harshly to
    the people, 14 as the younger men had advised. He said, “My father placed heavy
    burdens on you; I will make them even heavier. He beat you with whips; I'll flog you
    with bullwhips!” 15 It was the will of the LORD to bring about what he had spoken to
    Jeroboam son of Nebat through the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh. This is why the king
    did not pay any attention to the people.
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    When the people saw that the king would not listen to them, they shouted, “Down
    with David and his family! What have they ever done for us? People of Israel, let's go
    home! Let Rehoboam look out for himself!”
    So the people of Israel rebelled, 17 leaving Rehoboam as king only of the people who
    lived in the territory of Judah.
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    Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, who was in charge of the forced labor, to go to
    the Israelites, but they stoned him to death. At this, Rehoboam hurriedly got in his
    chariot and escaped to Jerusalem. 19 Ever since that time the people of the northern
    kingdom of Israel have been in rebellion against the dynasty of David.

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