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1 Kings 12:10 (NIV)
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
1 Kings 12:11 (NIV)
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.’ ”
1 Kings 12:12 (NIV)
Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”
1 Kings 12:13 (NIV)
The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,
1 Kings 12:14 (NIV)
he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”
1 Kings 12:15 (NIV)
So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the Lord , to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
1 Kings 12:16 (NIV)
When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse’s son? To your tents, Israel! Look after your own house, David!” So the Israelites went home.
1 Kings 12:17 (NIV)
But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.
1 Kings 12:18 (NIV)
King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram, 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.
1 Kings 12:19 (NIV)
So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
1 Kings 12:20 (NIV)
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.
1 Kings 12:21 (NIV)
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand able young men—to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.
1 Kings 12:22 (NIV)
But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
1 Kings 12:23 (NIV)
“Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,
1 Kings 12:24 (NIV)
‘This is what the Lord says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.’ ” So they obeyed the word of the Lord and went home again, as the Lord had ordered.
1 Kings 12:25 (NIV)
Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel.
1 Kings 12:26 (NIV)
Jeroboam thought to himself, “The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David.
1 Kings 12:27 (NIV)
If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.”
1 Kings 12:28 (NIV)
After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
1 Kings 12:29 (NIV)
One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
1 Kings 12:30 (NIV)
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.
1 Kings 12:31 (NIV)
Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.
1 Kings 12:32 (NIV)
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.
1 Kings 12:33 (NIV)
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.
1 Chronicles 12:1 (NIV)
These were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish (they were among the warriors who helped him in battle;