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web @2Chronicles:10:1 @Rehoboam went to Shechem ; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king . web @2Chronicles:10:2 @It happened , when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it , (for he was in Egypt , where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon ), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt . web @2Chronicles:10:3 @They sent and called him ; and Jeroboam and all Israel came , and they spoke to Rehoboam , saying , web @2Chronicles:10:4 @"Your father made our yoke grievous : now therefore make you the grievous service of your father , and his heavy yoke which he put on us , lighter , and we will serve you ." web @2Chronicles:10:5 @He said to them , "Come again to me after three days ." The people departed . web @2Chronicles:10:6 @King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men , who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived , saying , "What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people ?" web @2Chronicles:10:7 @They spoke to him , saying , "If you are kind to this people , and please them , and speak good words to them , then they will be your servants forever ." web @2Chronicles:10:8 @But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him , and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him , who stood before him . web @2Chronicles:10:9 @He said to them , "What counsel do you give , that we may return answer to this people , who have spoken to me , saying , 'Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter ?'" web @2Chronicles:10:10 @The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him , saying , "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you , saying , 'Your father made our yoke heavy , but make it lighter on us ;' thus you shall say to them , 'My little finger is thicker than my father 's waist . web @2Chronicles:10:11 @Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke , I will add to your yoke . My father chastised you with whips , but I will chastise you with scorpions .'" web @2Chronicles:10:12 @So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day , as the king asked , saying , "Come to me again the third day ." web @2Chronicles:10:13 @The king answered them roughly ; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men , web @2Chronicles:10:14 @and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men , saying , "My father made your yoke heavy , but I will add to it . My father chastised you with whips , but I will chastise you with scorpions ." web @2Chronicles:10:15 @So the king didn 't listen to the people ; for it was brought about of God , that Yahweh might establish his word , which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat . web @2Chronicles:10:16 @When all Israel saw that the king didn 't listen to them , the people answered the king , saying , "What portion have we in David ? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse ! Every man to your tents , Israel ! Now see to your own house , David ." So all Israel departed to their tents . web @2Chronicles:10:17 @But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah , Rehoboam reigned over them . web @2Chronicles:10:18 @Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram , who was over the men subject to forced labor ; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones . King Rehoboam made speed to get himself up to his chariot , to flee to Jerusalem . web @2Chronicles:10:19 @So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day .

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