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            <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="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="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="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="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="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="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="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="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="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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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.20">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.21">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin&#8212;a hundred and eighty thousand able young men&#8212;to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.12.21"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.22">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.23">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.24">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.12.24"><span class="label">24</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 brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So they obeyed the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and went home again, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had ordered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.12.24"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.25">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Penuel, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Peniel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.12.25"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.26">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jeroboam thought to himself, &#8220;The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.27">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.12.27"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.28">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, &#8220;It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8221; </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.29">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.30">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And this thing became a sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">people went to the one as far as Dan</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.12.30"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.31">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1KI.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.32">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1KI.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1KI.12.33">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1KI.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the altar he had built at Bethel. So he instituted the festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to make offerings.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.1">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a man of God came from Judah to Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.2">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">By the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> he cried out against the altar: &#8220;Altar, altar! This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.3">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">That same day the man of God gave a sign: &#8220;This is the sign the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has declared: The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it will be poured out.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.4">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, &#8220;Seize him!&#8221; But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up, so that he could not pull it back. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.5">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out according to the sign given by the man of God by the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.6">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the king said to the man of God, &#8220;Intercede with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.&#8221; So the man of God interceded with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the king&#8217;s hand was restored and became as it was before.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.8">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But the man of God answered the king, &#8220;Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.9">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For I was commanded by the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8216;You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="1KI.13.10">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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