_AND REHOBOAM WENT TO SHECHEM: FOR TO SHECHEM WERE ALL ISRAEL COME TO
MAKE HIM KING._
Rehoboam went to Shechem - (see the note at 1 Kings 12:1.) This
chapter is, with a few verbal alterations, the same as in that book.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO WAS IN
EGYPT, WHITHER HE HAD FLED FROM THE PRESENCE OF SOLOMON THE KING,
HEARD IT, THAT JEROBOAM RETURNED OUT OF EGYPT._
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_AND THEY SENT AND CALLED HIM. SO JEROBOAM AND ALL ISRAEL CAME AND
SPAKE TO REHOBOAM, SAYING,_
And they sent - rather, 'for they had sent,'. This is stated as the
reason of Jeroboam's return from Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THY FATHER MADE OUR YOKE GRIEVOUS: NOW THEREFORE EASE THOU SOMEWHAT
THE GRIEVOUS SERVITUDE OF THY_ _ THY FATHER MADE OUR YOKE GRIEVOUS:
NOW THEREFORE EASE THOU SOMEWHAT THE GRIEVOUS SERVITUDE OF THY FATHER,
AND HIS HEAVY YOKE THAT HE PUT UPON US, AND WE WILL SERVE THEE._
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_AND THEY SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, IF THOU BE KIND TO THIS PEOPLE, AND
PLEASE THEM, AND SPEAK GOOD WORDS TO THEM, THEY WILL BE THY SERVANTS
FOR EVER._
If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words
to them. In the Book of Kings, the words are. "If thou wilt be a
servant unto t... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT HE FORSOOK THE COUNSEL WHICH THE OLD MEN GAVE HIM, AND TOOK
COUNSEL WITH THE YOUNG MEN THAT WERE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM, THAT STOOD
BEFORE HIM._
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_SO THE KING HEARKENED NOT UNTO THE PEOPLE: FOR THE CAUSE WAS OF GOD,
THAT THE LORD MIGHT PERFORM HIS WORD, WHICH HE SPAKE BY THE HAND OF
AHIJAH THE SHILONITE TO JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT._
The cause was of God. Rehoboam, in following an evil counsel, and the
Hebrew people, is making a revolutionar... [ Continue Reading ]