Verse 26
1 Kings 12:26
Bible in Basic English
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And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר יָרָבְעָ֖ם בְּ/לִבּ֑/וֹ עַתָּ֛ה תָּשׁ֥וּב הַ/מַּמְלָכָ֖ה לְ/בֵ֥ית דָּוִֽד
English Translation
And Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David."
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Chapter 12 Context
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And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
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And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight...
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And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
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Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us d...
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And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.
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Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was...
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And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them...
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But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation...
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And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to m...
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And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came t...
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If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips...
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So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back...
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And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;
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But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but...
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So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that...
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And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to...
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(But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Ju...
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Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all...
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So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.
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Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeti...
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When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a h...
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But the word of God (Elohim) came to Shemaiah, the man of God (Elohim), saying,
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Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the...
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The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers, the children of Israel; go back,...
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Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living...
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And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:
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If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be tur...
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So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been goi...
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And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.
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And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to t...
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And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from amon...
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And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like th...
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He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month f...
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