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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF KI1 12:1 Accession of Rehoboam, and his Folly.
But Rehoboam went to Shekem, for the Parliament of Israel came to elect him king.
RF KI1 12:2 (B.C. 975.) Jerabam Called from Egypt.
But Jerabam-ben-Nebat heard of it while still in Mitzer, where he had fled from before King Solomon,—for Jerabam had settled in Mitzer,—
RF KI1 12:3 so they sent an invitation to Jerabam from all the Parliament of Israel. They then addressed Rehoboam, saying,
RF KI1 12:4 "Your father was heavy upon us, but you can now lighten the load of your father from your subjects, and lift off from us the load that he laid upon us, and we will be your subjects."
RF KI1 12:5 But he replied to them, "Go away for three days. Then return to me." So the people went.
RF KI1 12:6 King Rehoboam then consulted the advisers who had stood in the presence of his father Solomon during his life, asking, "What answer do you advise me to return to these people?"
RF KI1 12:7 And they replied to him, saying, "If you will be a subject of these people to-day, and answer and speak fair words to them, then they will be your subjects at all times."
RF KI1 12:8 However he rejected the advice of the old men, which they had advised, and consulted the lads who had grown up with him, who stood before him,
RF KI1 12:9 and asked them; "What answer do you advise that I shall return to these people who have addressed me, saying, 'Lift from off us what your father laid on'?"
RF KI1 12:10 And the lads who had grown up with him advised him saying, "Reply thus to those people, who addressed you saying, 'Your father loaded us, but you take it off.' Say this to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins!'
RF KI1 12:11 So I will put a heavy yoke on you,—for I will add to the yoke of my father.—He flogged you with whips!—but I will flog you with scorpions!'"
RF KI1 12:12 (B.C. 975.) The Parliament of Israel Revolt and elect Jerabam King.
But Jerabam himself came, and all the Parliament with Jerabam on the third day, as the king had appointed, when he said, "Return to me, on the third day,"
RF KI1 12:13 and the king answered the people harshly, and refused the counsels of the old men which they advised,
RF KI1 12:14 but addressed them as the lads advised him, and said, "My father put a load on you! but I will add another to it My father flogged you with whips, but I will flog you with scorpions."
RF KI1 12:15 Thus the king did not listen to the people, for the EVER-LIVING caused the people to revolt for the purpose of establishing the word that the EVER-LIVING spoke by the means of Akhiah, the Shilonite, to Jeraoam-ben-Nebat.
RF KI1 12:16 Then all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, consequently the people returned the king word to say, "What is our share in David? For we have no inheritance from the Son of Jesse! To your tents, Israel! Now look to your own house, David!" And Israel went to its tents.
RF KI1 12:17 Some Israelites, however, continued to reside in Judah and Rehoboam reigned over them.
RF KI1 12:18 King Rehoboam, however, sent Adoram who was over the conscription, but the Parliament of Israel rose against him and stoned him to death, so King Rehoboam made haste to mount his carriage and to fly to Jerusalem.
RF KI1 12:19 Thus Israel revolted from the House of David until this day,
RF KI1 12:20 for when all Israel heard that Jerabam had returned, they sent and invited him to the Parliament, and they elected him king over all Israel;—there were none left afterwards to the House of David except the tribe of Judah alone.
RF KI1 12:21 When Rehoboam arrived at Jerusalem, he convoked the forces of the House of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand soldiers, trained for war,1 to fight with the House of Israel, to regain the kingship to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
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1 V. 21. The army that was thus raised out of two Tribes shows how the population had increased under the security of David and Solomon's reigns, and the commercial prosperity following the creation of a great Empire. Solomon had noted it and mote "When wealth increases the consumers increase." We see it in Britain and America.—F.F.
RF KI1 12:22 But the word of GOD came to Shemaiah, a Man of GOD, to say,
RF KI1 12:23 "Speak to Rehoboam-ben-Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the House of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the People, saying,—
RF KI1 12:24 "'Thus says the LORD! You shall not go up, and shall not war against your brothers, the children of Israel. Let each return to his home, for this event has come from Me!'" And they listened to the word of the EVER-LIVING, and turned back from the march, as the EVER-LIVING commanded.
RF KI1 12:25 Rehoboam consequently built Shikem in Mount Ephraim, and resided there, and advanced from there and built Phanual.
RF KI1 12:26 (B.C. 974-3.) Jerabam revives Idolatry.
Then Jerabam reflected "Now the kingship will return to the House of David,
RF KI1 12:27 if these people go up to offer sacrifices in the House of the EVER-LIVING at Jerusalem; for the heart of these people will turn to their Prince,—to Rehoboam king of Judah."
RF KI1 12:28 So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. These are your GODs, Israel I who brought you up out of the land of the Mitzeraim."
RF KI1 12:29 He therefore placed the one in Bethel, and the other he placed in Dan.
RF KI1 12:30 But this thing was a sin, and the people went before the one to Dan.
RF KI1 12:31 He also made the House of Pillars, and made priests from the mass of the people who were not of the descendants of Levi.—
RF KI1 12:32 Jerabam, besides, made a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that was to the EVER-LIVING, and went up to sacrifice to the calves which he had made, and fixed in Bethel, with the priests of the columns he had made,
RF KI1 12:33 and offered upon the altar that he had constructed in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, as his heart had decided to make a festival for the children of Israel, and he offered incense on the altar.




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