2 Chronicles 10 : 1 (NCV)
Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all the Israelites had gone to make him king.
2 Chronicles 10 : 2 (NCV)
Jeroboam son of Nebat was in Egypt, where he had gone to escape from King Solomon. When Jeroboam heard about Rehoboam being made king, he returned from Egypt.
2 Chronicles 10 : 3 (NCV)
After the people sent for him, he and the people went to Rehoboam and said to him,
2 Chronicles 10 : 4 (NCV)
"Your father forced us to work very hard. Now, make it easier for us, and don't make us work as he did. Then we will serve you."
2 Chronicles 10 : 5 (NCV)
Rehoboam answered, "Come back to me in three days." So the people left.
2 Chronicles 10 : 6 (NCV)
King Rehoboam asked the older leaders who had advised Solomon during his lifetime, "How do you think I should answer these people?"
2 Chronicles 10 : 7 (NCV)
They answered, "Be kind to these people. If you please them and give them a kind answer, they will serve you always."
2 Chronicles 10 : 8 (NCV)
But Rehoboam rejected this advice. Instead, he asked the young men who had grown up with him and who served as his advisers.
2 Chronicles 10 : 9 (NCV)
Rehoboam asked them, "What is your advice? How should we answer these people who said, 'Don't make us work as hard as your father did'?"
2 Chronicles 10 : 10 (NCV)
The young men who had grown up with him answered, "The people said to you, 'Your father forced us to work very hard. Now make our work easier.' You should tell them, 'My little finger is bigger than my father's legs.
2 Chronicles 10 : 11 (NCV)
He forced you to work hard, but I will make you work even harder. My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with whips that have sharp points.'"
2 Chronicles 10 : 12 (NCV)
Rehoboam had told the people, "Come back to me in three days." So after three days Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam.
2 Chronicles 10 : 13 (NCV)
King Rehoboam spoke cruel words to them, because he had rejected the advice of the older leaders.
2 Chronicles 10 : 14 (NCV)
He followed the advice of the young men and said, "My father forced you to work hard, but I will make you work even harder. My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with whips that have sharp points."
2 Chronicles 10 : 15 (NCV)
So the king did not listen to the people. God caused this to happen so that the Lord could keep the promise he had made to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah, a prophet from Shiloh.
2 Chronicles 10 : 16 (NCV)
When all the Israelites saw that the king refused to listen to them, they said to the king, "We have no share in David! People of Israel, let's go to our own homes! Let David's son rule his own people." So all the Israelites went home.
2 Chronicles 10 : 17 (NCV)
But Rehoboam still ruled over the Israelites who lived in the towns of Judah.
2 Chronicles 10 : 18 (NCV)
Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. When Rehoboam sent him to the people, they threw stones at him until he died. But King Rehoboam ran to his chariot and escaped to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 10 : 19 (NCV)
Since then, Israel has been against the family of David.
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