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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Rehoboam answered, &#8220;Come back to me in three days.&#8221; So the people went away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. &#8220;How would you advise me to answer these people?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He asked them, &#8220;What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, &#8216;Lighten the yoke your father put on us&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The young men who had grown up with him replied, &#8220;The people have said to you, &#8216;Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.&#8217; Now tell them, &#8216;My little finger is thicker than my father&#8217;s waist. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, &#8220;Come back to me in three days.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king answered them harshly. Rejecting the advice of the elders, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">he followed the advice of the young men and said, &#8220;My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What share do we have in David,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">what part in Jesse&#8217;s son?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">To your tents, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">Look after your own house, David!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">So all the Israelites went home. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hadoram, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Adoniram</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered Judah and Benjamin&#8212;a hundred and eighty thousand able young men&#8212;to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But this word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Shemaiah the man of God: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So they obeyed the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and turned back from marching against Jeroboam.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Rehoboam Fortifies Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built up towns for defense in Judah: </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Beth Zur, Soko, Adullam, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron. These were fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He strengthened their defenses and put commanders in them, with supplies of food, olive oil and wine. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He put shields and spears in all the cities, and made them very strong. So Judah and Benjamin were his.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">when he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, followed the Levites to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon three years, following the ways of David and Solomon during this time.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Rehoboam&#8217;s Family</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Rehoboam married Mahalath, who was the daughter of David&#8217;s son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse&#8217;s son Eliab. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah and Zaham. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then he married Maakah daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maakah as crown prince among his brothers, in order to make him king. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He acted wisely, dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and took many wives for them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.29.1"><span class="content">will suddenly be destroyed&#8212;without remedy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.29.2"><span class="content">when the wicked rule, the people groan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.29.3"><span class="content">but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">By justice a king gives a country stability,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.29.4"><span class="content">but those who are greedy for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">who give</span></span></span><span class="content"> bribes tear it down.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who flatter their neighbors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.29.5"><span class="content">are spreading nets for their feet.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Evildoers are snared by their own sin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.29.6"><span class="content">but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The righteous care about justice for the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.29.7"><span class="content">but the wicked have no such concern.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Mockers stir up a city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.29.8"><span class="content">but the wise turn away anger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If a wise person goes to court with a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.29.9"><span class="content">the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The bloodthirsty hate a person of integrity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.29.10"><span class="content">and seek to kill the upright.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Fools give full vent to their rage,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.29.11"><span class="content">but the wise bring calm in the end.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.29.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If a ruler listens to lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.29.12"><span class="content">all his officials become wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The poor and the oppressor have this in common:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.29.13"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives sight to the eyes of both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If a king judges the poor with fairness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.29.14"><span class="content">his throne will be established forever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;We played the pipe for you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you did not dance;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">we sang a dirge,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you did not mourn.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, &#8216;He has a demon.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, &#8216;Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.&#8217; But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe on Unrepentant Towns</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, the realm of the dead</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Father Revealed in the Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">At that time Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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