Verse 6
1 Kings 12:6
Free Bible Version
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They replied, “If you are a servant to these people today, if you serve them and answer them, by speaking kindly to them, they will always serve you.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּוָּעַ֞ץ הַ/מֶּ֣לֶךְ רְחַבְעָ֗ם אֶת הַ/זְּקֵנִים֙ אֲשֶׁר הָי֣וּ עֹמְדִ֗ים אֶת פְּנֵי֙ שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה אָבִ֔י/ו בִּֽ/הְיֹת֥/וֹ חַ֖י לֵ/אמֹ֑ר אֵ֚יךְ אַתֶּ֣ם נֽוֹעָצִ֔ים לְ/הָשִׁ֥יב אֶת הָֽ/עָם הַ/זֶּ֖ה דָּבָֽר
English Translation
And King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had stood before his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you advise to respond to this people?"
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Chapter 12 Context
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Jeroboam, son of Nebat, was still in Egypt when he heard about this. (He had run away to Egypt to es...
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The Israelite leaders sent for him. Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israelites went to talk with...
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“Your father placed a heavy burden on us,” they told him. “But now if you lighten the load from when...
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4
Rehoboam answered, “Go away and come back in three days' time.” So the people left.
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5
King Rehoboam asked for advice from the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive....
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6
They replied, “If you are a servant to these people today, if you serve them and answer them, by spe...
7
But Rehoboam dismissed the advice of the elders. Instead he consulted the young men he had grown up...
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8
He asked them, “What response do you advise that we send back to these people who have told me, ‘Lig...
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9
The young men he had grown up with told him, “This is what you have to tell these people who said to...
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10
My father placed a heavy burden on you, and I will make it even heavier. My father punished you with...
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11
Three days' later, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, because the king had told them,...
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12
The king answered the people sharply. Dismissing the advice of the elders,
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13
he replied using the advice of the young men. He said, “My father placed a heavy burden on you, and...
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14
The king did not listen to what the people said, for this change in circumstances was from the Lord,...
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15
When all the Israelites saw that the king wasn't listening to them, they told the king: “What share...
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16
However, Rehoboam still ruled over the Israelites who lived in Judah.
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17
Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned hi...
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18
As a result, Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
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19
When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent for him, summoning him to the as...
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20
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he gathered the men from the households of Judah and Benjamin— 1...
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21
But a message from the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God (Elohim) that said,
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22
“Say to Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, to Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the peopl...
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23
‘This is what the Lord says. Don't fight against your Israelite relatives. Every one of you, go home...
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24
Jeroboam strengthened the town of Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there...
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25
Jeroboam said to himself, “The kingdom could easily return to the house of David.
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26
When people from here go to offer sacrifices at the Lord's Temple in Jerusalem, they will transfer t...
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27
So after taking advice, the king had two golden calves made, and he told the people, “Don't bother g...
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28
He placed one in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
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29
This action brought about sin, because the people went as far north as Dan to worship the idol there...
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30
Jeroboam initiated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, just like the festival held...
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31
So on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month he had chosen himself, Jeroboam offered sacrifi...
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