2 Chronicles, Chapter 10:
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Verses from 2 Chronicles, Chapter 10 of the book of 2 Chronicles of the Bible.
Israel rebels against Reboam
- 1. Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all the Israelites gathered to proclaim him king.
- 2. Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had fled from King Solomon and was in Egypt. When he heard about the meeting in Shechem, he returned from Egypt.
- 3. And they called Jeroboam, and he and all Israel went to meet Rehoboam, and said,
- 4. “Your father imposed a heavy yoke on us, but now ease the burden and this yoke, and we will serve you.”
- 5. Rehoboam replied, “Come back to me in three days.” And the people left.
- 6. King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime, saying, “How do you advise me to respond to these people?”
- 7. They replied, “If you are kind to this people today, if you please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”
- 8. However, Rehoboam rejected the advice given by the Israeli authorities and sought out the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
- 9. He asked them, “What advice do you give me? How should I respond to these people who say to me: 'Ease the yoke that your father placed on us'?”
- 10. The young men who had grown up with him answered, “To the people who say to you, 'Your father imposed a heavy yoke on us; ease it for us' – thus you will say to him: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
- 11. Well then, my father burdened them with a heavy yoke; I will aggravate it even more. My father punished them with whips; I will punish them with scorpions' “.
- 12. Three days later, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had commanded: “Return to me in three days.”
- 13. But the king answered them harshly, rejecting the advice of the Israeli authorities.
- 14. He followed the advice of the young men and said: “My father made the yoke heavy on you; I will make it even heavier. My father punished them with whips; I will punish them with scorpions.”
- 15. And the king did not listen to the people, because this change of events was from God, to fulfill the word that the Lord spoke to Jeroboam son of Nebat through the prophet Ahijah of Shiloh.
- 16. When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king, “What do we have in common with David? What do we have in common with the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Take care of your own house, O David!” And so the Israelites returned to their homes.
- 17. However, the Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah remained under the reign of Rehoboam.
- 18. King Rehoboam sent Adoniram to do forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. However, the king managed to climb into his chariot and flee to Jerusalem.
- 19. Thus Israel rebelled against the dynasty of David, and remains so to this day.
