2 Chronicles 10:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:12-15 : 12 So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day. 13 And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men; 14 But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes. 15 So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.
  • 2 Chr 10:5 : 5 And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:11-15
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    11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

    12 So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

    13 And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;

    14 But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

    15 So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.

  • 2 Chr 10:1-7
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    1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.

    2 And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt.

    3 And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

    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.

    5 And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

    6 Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

    7 And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.

  • 1 Kgs 12:1-7
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    84%

    1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

    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;

    3 And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

    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.

    5 And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

    6 Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

    7 And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.

  • 2 Chr 11:1-4
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    1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

    2 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

    3 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

    4 The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers: let every man go back to his house, for this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the words of the Lord and were turned back from fighting against Jeroboam.

  • 2 Chr 10:13-15
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    13 And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

    14 But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

    15 So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

  • 2 Chr 10:11
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    11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

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    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.

    21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.

    22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

    23 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:

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    26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:

    27 If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 11:17
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    17 So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

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    8 And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the responsible men, all his goods would be put under the curse, and he himself would be cut off from the meeting of the people who had come back.

  • 2 Chr 10:17-19
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    17 But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.

    18 Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

    19 So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.

  • 2 Chr 12:1-2
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    1 Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

    2 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,

  • 1 Kgs 12:17-18
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    17 (But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)

    18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

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    11 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

  • Jer 42:7
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    7 And it came about that after ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

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    10 So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

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    5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.

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