32;
32 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. (5)
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27 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.” (9)
28 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.”
29 One he set up in
Bethel, and the other in Dan.
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18 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.
(9)
19 So Israel has been in rebellion
against the house of David to this day.
20 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.
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9 He
asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to
me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?” (9)
10 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.
11 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.’”
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33 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. (6)
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24 ‘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. (6)
Golden Calves at
Bethel and Dan
25 Then Jeroboam
fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he
went out and built up Peniel.
26 Jeroboam thought to
himself, “The kingdom
will now likely revert to the house of David.
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15 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. (6)
16 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.
17 But as for the
Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over
them.
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6 Then
King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his
lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked. (6)
7 They replied, “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.”
8 But Rehoboam rejected the
advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with
him and were serving him.
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30 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. (3)
31 Jeroboam built
shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even
though they were not Levites.
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21 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. (3)
22 But this word of God
came to Shemaiah the man of God:
23 “Say to Rehoboam
son of Solomon king of Judah, to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the
people,
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12 Three
days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had
said, “Come back to me
in three days.” (3)
13 The king answered the
people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,
14 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.”
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Israel Rebels
Against Rehoboam
12 Rehoboam went to
Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
2 When Jeroboam son
of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King
Solomon), he returned from Egypt.
3 So
they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to
Rehoboam and said to him:
(3)
4 “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.”
5 Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then come back to me.” So the people went
away.
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