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12:6. King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before
Solomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do
you give me, that I may answer this people?
12:7. They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and
condescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle
words to them, they will be thy servants always.
12:8. But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,
and consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and
stood before him.
12:9. And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may
answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke, which thy father
put upon us, lighter?
12:10. And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus
shalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy
father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My
little finger is thicker than the back of my father.
12:11. And now my father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to
your yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with
scorpions.
12:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the third day, as
the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.
12:13. And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of
the old men, which they had given him,
12:14. And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men,
saying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My
father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.
12:15. And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was
turned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the
hand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.
12:16. Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them,
answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance
in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look
to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.
12:17. But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of
Juda, Roboam reigned over them.
12:18. Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all
Israel stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get
him up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:
12:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.
12:20. And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come
again, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and made
him king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the house of
David but the tribe of Juda only.
Juda only... Benjamin was a small tribe, and so intermixed with the
tribe of Juda, (the very city of Jerusalem being partly in Juda, partly
in Benjamin,) that they are here counted but as one tribe.
12:21. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together all the house
of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand chosen
men for war, to fight against the house of Israel, and to bring the
kingdom again under Roboam, the son of Solomon.
12:22. But the word of the Lord came to Semeias, the man of God, saying:
12:23. Speak to Roboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Juda, and to all
the house of Juda, and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying:
12:24. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your
brethren, the children of Israel: let every man return to his house, for
this thing is from me. They hearkened to the word of the Lord, and
returned from their journey, as the Lord had commanded them.
12:25. And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt there, and
going out from thence, he built Phanuel.
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