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|1 Reyes 12:1|
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all the Israelites had gone there to make him king.
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2
|1 Reyes 12:2|
When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from [Or he remained in] Egypt.
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3
|1 Reyes 12:3|
So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him:
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4
|1 Reyes 12:4|
“Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labour and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
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5
|1 Reyes 12:5|
Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then come back to me.” So the people went away.
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6
|1 Reyes 12:6|
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.
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7
|1 Reyes 12:7|
They replied, “If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favourable answer, they will always be your servants.”
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8
|1 Reyes 12:8|
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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9
|1 Reyes 12:9|
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’?”
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10
|1 Reyes 12:10|
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “Tell these people who have said to you, `Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter’ — tell them, `My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
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