NITHYAM SONGS1 Kings 12
World English Bible (WEB) • 33 verses
1Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
2When 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;
3and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
4“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.”
Related1 Samuel 8:11-18 · 1 Kings 4:7 · Matthew 11:29-30 · 1 Kings 4:20-25 · 2 Chronicles 10:4-5 · Matthew 23:4
5He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” So the people departed.
Related1 Kings 12:12
6King 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?”
7They 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.”
RelatedProverbs 15:1 · 1 Kings 12:13 · Ecclesiastes 10:4 · 2 Chronicles 10:6-7 · Zechariah 1:13 · Philippians 2:7-11
8But 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.
RelatedProverbs 19:20 · Proverbs 1:2-5 · 2 Chronicles 10:8 · Proverbs 25:12 · Ecclesiastes 10:2-3 · Proverbs 1:30
9He 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’?”
10The 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.
Related2 Chronicles 10:10-11 · Proverbs 28:25 · Proverbs 10:14 · Proverbs 29:23 · Proverbs 18:6-7 · 2 Samuel 17:7-13
11Now 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.’”
12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”
13The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
RelatedEcclesiastes 10:12 · Proverbs 18:23 · Proverbs 10:32 · James 3:17 · Proverbs 13:20 · Proverbs 10:11
14and 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.”
RelatedExodus 5:5-9 · 1 Kings 12:10-11 · Exodus 5:16-18 · James 3:14-4:2 · Esther 1:16-21 · Isaiah 19:11-13
15So 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.
RelatedJudges 14:4 · 1 Kings 12:24 · Deuteronomy 2:30 · 2 Chronicles 25:20 · 1 Kings 11:29-38 · 1 Kings 11:11
16When 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.
Related2 Samuel 20:1 · Jeremiah 33:15-16 · Jeremiah 23:5-6 · 1 Kings 22:17 · 1 Kings 22:36 · 2 Chronicles 10:16
17But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
18Then 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.
Related1 Kings 4:6 · 2 Samuel 20:24 · 1 Kings 5:14 · Acts 7:57-58 · 2 Chronicles 24:21 · 1 Kings 20:18-20
19So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.
Related2 Kings 17:21 · 2 Chronicles 10:19 · 2 Chronicles 13:5-7 · 1 Samuel 10:19 · Isaiah 7:17 · Hebrews 6:6
20When 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.
21When 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.
Related2 Chronicles 11:1-3 · 1 Chronicles 21:5 · 2 Chronicles 14:11 · 2 Chronicles 14:8 · Proverbs 21:30-31 · 2 Chronicles 17:14-19
22But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
Related2 Chronicles 11:2 · 1 Kings 13:11 · 2 Chronicles 12:5-7 · 2 Kings 4:27 · 1 Kings 13:4-5 · 1 Timothy 6:11
23“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,
Related1 Kings 12:17
24‘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.
RelatedNumbers 14:42 · 1 Kings 12:15 · 2 Chronicles 11:4 · 1 Kings 11:29-38 · 2 Chronicles 25:7-8 · Hosea 8:4
25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there and built Penuel.
26Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.
RelatedPsalms 14:1 · Isaiah 7:9 · John 11:47-50 · 2 Chronicles 20:20 · John 12:10-11 · 1 Kings 11:38
27If 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.”
RelatedDeuteronomy 16:6 · Deuteronomy 12:5-7 · Proverbs 29:25 · Deuteronomy 12:14 · Deuteronomy 16:2 · Genesis 26:7
28So 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!”
29He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
30This thing became a sin, for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
31He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
Related1 Kings 13:32-33 · 2 Kings 17:32 · 2 Chronicles 13:9 · 2 Chronicles 11:14-15 · Numbers 3:10 · Hosea 12:11
32Jeroboam 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.
Related1 Kings 8:2 · Amos 7:10-13 · Numbers 29:12-40 · 1 Kings 8:5 · Leviticus 23:33-44 · Matthew 15:8-9
33He 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.
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.