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 12:4
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.
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1 Kings 12:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
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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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