1 Kings 12:3
And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
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1 Kings 12:3
And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
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1 Kings 12:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
1 Kings 12:2
And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
1 Kings 12:3
And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
1 Kings 12:4
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
1 Kings 12:5
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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1 Kings 12:20
Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.
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1 Kings 12:16
And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.
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