2 Chronicles · 19 verses
2 Chronicles 10
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Rehoboam was offered lifelong service in exchange for kind words, chose scorpions instead, and watched all Israel go home.
A kingdom waits at Shechemvv. 1–5
Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had gathered to make him king. Jeroboam returned from Egypt and was summoned with the people, who asked that Solomon’s heavy yoke be lightened. Rehoboam gave them three days to return—a small pause before a very large answer.
The answer with scorpionsvv. 6–19
The elders who had served Solomon advised kindness: it would win the people as servants forever. Rehoboam instead asked the young men who had grown up with him, and their proposed reply had the peculiar grandeur of a measuring contest: his little finger would outweigh his father’s waist, and whips would become scorpions. He delivered the harsh answer, and the people went home, leaving him king only over the Israelites in the cities of Judah. Hadoram, sent to them as the man in charge of forced labor, was stoned; Rehoboam fled by chariot to Jerusalem. The chapter leaves Israel in rebellion against the house of David, while also saying that this turn fulfilled the word spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite.
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2 Chr 10:1Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
2 Chr 10:2When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
2 Chr 10:3So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
2 Chr 10:4“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
2 Chr 10:5Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
2 Chr 10:6Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
2 Chr 10:7They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
2 Chr 10:8But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
2 Chr 10:9He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
2 Chr 10:10The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
2 Chr 10:11Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”
2 Chr 10:12After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
2 Chr 10:13And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
2 Chr 10:14and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
2 Chr 10:15So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
2 Chr 10:16When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
2 Chr 10:17but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
2 Chr 10:18Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
2 Chr 10:19So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.
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- 151 Kings 11:29–39During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was going out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.
- 151 Samuel 2:25If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.
- 21 Kings 11:40Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.
- 7Proverbs 15:1A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- 152 Chronicles 25:16–20While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”
- 162 Chronicles 10:19So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.
- 162 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
- 181 Kings 5:14He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
- 6Job 32:7I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.
- 8Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
- 82 Samuel 17:14Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
- 15Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
- 181 Kings 4:6Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
- 21 Kings 12:2When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.
- 21 Kings 11:28Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
- 21 Kings 11:26Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,
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