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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 tons or about 23 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms; also in verse 29</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold went into each shield. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 pounds or about 1.7 kilograms; or perhaps reference is to double minas, that is, about 7 1/2 pounds or about 3.5 kilograms.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">All King Solomon&#8217;s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon&#8217;s days. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The king had a fleet of trading ships</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:22 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">of ships of Tarshish</span></span></span><span class="content"> at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift&#8212;articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.10.25"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content"> which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Solomon&#8217;s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:28 </span><span class="ft">Probably </span><span class="fqa">Cilicia</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:29 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 pounds or about 1.7 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Wives</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter&#8212;Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They were from nations about which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had told the Israelites, &#8220;You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.&#8221; Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God, as the heart of David his father had been. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; he did not follow the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> completely, as David his father had done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Solomon, &#8220;Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Adversaries</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They set out from Midian and went to Paran. Then taking people from Paran with them, they went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath, whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There Genubath lived with Pharaoh&#8217;s own children.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">While he was in Egypt, Hadad heard that David rested with his ancestors and that Joab the commander of the army was also dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, &#8220;Let me go, that I may return to my own country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;What have you lacked here that you want to go back to your own country?&#8221; Pharaoh asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.11.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Nothing,&#8221; Hadad replied, &#8220;but do let me go!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When David destroyed Zobah&#8217;s army, Rezon gathered a band of men around him and became their leader; they went to Damascus, where they settled and took control. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Rezon was Israel&#8217;s adversary as long as Solomon lived, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled in Aram and was hostile toward Israel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeroboam Rebels Against Solomon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.11.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon&#8217;s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the terraces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Millo</span></span></span><span class="content"> and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now Jeroboam was a man of standing, and when Solomon saw how well the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the tribes of Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.11.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1KI.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then he said to Jeroboam, &#8220;Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon&#8217;s hand and give you ten tribes. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1KI.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1KI.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">I will do this because they have</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:33 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">because he has</span></span></span><span class="content"> forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon&#8217;s father, did.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1KI.11.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1KI.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon&#8217;s hand; I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1KI.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">I will take the kingdom from his son&#8217;s hands and give you ten tribes. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1KI.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1KI.11.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1KI.11.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right in my eyes by obeying my decrees and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1KI.11.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">I will humble David&#8217;s descendants because of this, but not forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1KI.11.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1KI.11.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon&#8217;s death.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Death</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1KI.11.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1KI.11.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Solomon&#8217;s reign&#8212;all he did and the wisdom he displayed&#8212;are they not written in the book of the annals of Solomon? </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1KI.11.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="1KI.11.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he remained in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Egypt. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.4">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.12.4"><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="1KI.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.5">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Rehoboam answered, &#8220;Go away for three days and then come back to me.&#8221; So the people went away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.6">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.12.6"><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="1KI.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.7">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;If today you will be a servant to these people and serve 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="1KI.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.8">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.12.8"><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></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.9">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.12.9"><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="1KI.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.10">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The young men who had grown up with him replied, &#8220;These 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></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.11">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.12.11"><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="1KI.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.12">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.12.12"><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></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.13">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders, </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.14">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.12.14"><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></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.15">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, 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="1KI.12.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.16">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><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="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What share do we have in David,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">what part in Jesse&#8217;s son?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">To your tents, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">Look after your own house, David!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">So the Israelites went home. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.17">
            <div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.12.17"><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="1KI.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.18">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.12.18"><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">12:18 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 4:6 and 5:14); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Adoram</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.19">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.12.19"><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><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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