Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 2Ch 10:1-19Jdg 9:61Ki 11:43Gen 12:6Gen 33:18-19Jdg 9:1Jos 20:7Jos 24:1 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt; 1Ki 11:401Ki 11:26-312Ch 10:2-3 and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, “Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.” 1Sa 8:11-181Ki 4:7Mat 11:29-301Ki 4:20-252Ch 10:4-5Mat 23:41Jn 5:31Ki 9:15
He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” 1Ki 12:12
So the people departed.
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 answer these people?” Job 12:12Job 32:71Ki 4:22Sa 16:202Sa 17:5Jer 42:2-5Jer 43:2Pro 27:10
They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.” Pro 15:11Ki 12:132Ch 10:6-72Sa 15:3-6Ecc 10:4Mrk 10:43-44Php 2:7-11Zec 1:13
But he abandoned 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. Pro 19:202Ch 10:82Ch 25:15-16Ecc 10:2-3Pro 1:2-5Pro 1:25Pro 1:30Pro 25:12 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter’?” 1Ki 22:6-82Ch 10:92Ch 18:5-72Sa 17:5-6
The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us’—tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. 2Ch 10:10-112Sa 17:7-13Isa 47:6Pro 10:14Pro 18:6-7Pro 28:25Pro 29:23 Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’” 1Ki 12:141Sa 8:182Ch 16:10Exo 1:13-14Exo 5:18Exo 5:5-9Ezk 2:6Isa 58:6
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.” 1Ki 12:52Ch 10:12-14 The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, Ecc 10:12Jas 3:17Pro 10:11Pro 10:32Pro 13:20Pro 18:231Ki 20:6-111Sa 20:10 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.” 1Ki 12:10-11Exo 5:16-18Exo 5:5-92Ch 22:4-5Dan 6:7Ecc 7:8Est 1:16-21Est 2:2-4
So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from the LORD, that he might establish his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 1Ki 11:29-381Ki 12:242Ch 25:20Deu 2:30Jdg 14:41Ki 11:112Ch 10:152Ch 22:7 When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents. 2Sa 20:11Ki 22:171Ki 22:362Ch 10:16Jer 23:5-6Jer 33:15-16Jer 33:211Ki 11:13
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. 1Ki 11:131Ki 11:362Ch 10:172Ch 11:13-17 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 1Ki 4:61Ki 5:142Sa 20:24Act 7:57-581Ki 20:18-202Ch 10:182Ch 24:21Act 5:26 So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day. 2Ki 17:212Ch 10:191Sa 10:192Ch 13:172Ch 13:5-7Heb 6:6Isa 7:17Jos 4:9
When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only. 1Ki 11:131Ki 11:321Ki 11:361Ki 12:171Sa 10:24Hos 8:4Hos 11:12
When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 2Ch 11:1-31Ch 21:52Ch 14:112Ch 14:82Ch 17:14-19Pro 21:30-31 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 2Ch 11:21Ki 13:11Ki 13:111Ki 13:4-51Ki 17:181Ki 17:241Ti 6:112Ch 12:5-7 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying, 1Ki 12:17 ‘The LORD says, “You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me.”’” So they listened to the LORD’s word, and returned and went their way, according to the LORD’s word. 1Ki 11:29-381Ki 12:152Ch 11:42Ch 25:7-8Num 14:422Ch 25:10Hos 8:42Ch 28:9-15
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there and built Penuel. Jdg 8:17Jdg 8:8Gen 32:30-31Jdg 9:45-491Ki 12:11Ki 15:171Ki 16:241Ki 9:15 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house. 1Ki 11:381Sa 27:12Ch 20:20Act 4:16-17Isa 7:9Jer 38:18-21Jhn 11:47-50Jhn 12:10-11 If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the LORD’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” Deu 12:14Deu 12:5-7Deu 16:6Pro 29:251Co 1:19-201Ki 11:321Ki 8:29-301Ki 8:44 So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” Exo 32:42Ki 10:292Ki 17:16Exo 32:82Ch 11:15Hos 8:4-71Ki 12:8-92Pe 2:19 He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Gen 28:19Jdg 18:27-312Ki 10:29Amo 8:14Deu 34:1Gen 12:8Gen 14:14Gen 35:1 This thing became a sin, for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there. 2Ki 17:211Ki 13:342Ki 10:31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. 1Ki 13:32-332Ch 13:92Ki 17:322Ch 11:14-15Num 3:101Ki 13:24Deu 24:15Ezk 16:25 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. 1Ki 8:21Ki 8:5Amo 7:10-13Num 29:12-40Ezk 43:8Lev 23:33-44Mat 15:8-9 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense. 1Ki 13:1Num 15:391Sa 13:122Ch 26:6Isa 29:13Mat 15:6Mrk 7:13Psa 106:39