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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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11
|1 Reyes 12:11|
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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12
|1 Reyes 12:12|
Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”
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13
|1 Reyes 12:13|
The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,
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14
|1 Reyes 12:14|
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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15
|1 Reyes 12:15|
So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfil the word the LORD had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
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16
|1 Reyes 12:16|
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, O Israel! Look after your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home.
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