1 Kings 12 (NET)

1 Kings 12:1¹Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 10:1-19Judg 9:61 Kgs 11:43Gen 12:6Gen 33:18-19Josh 20:7Josh 24:1Josh 24:32Judg 9:1Ps 60:6

1 Kings 12:2²When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:401 Kgs 11:26-312 Chr 10:2-3

1 Kings 12:3³They sent for him, and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

1 Kings 12:4⁴“Your father made us work too hard. Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 8:11-181 Kgs 4:7Matt 11:29-301 Kgs 4:20-252 Chr 10:4-5Matt 23:41 John 5:31 Kgs 9:151 Kgs 9:22-23

1 Kings 12:5⁵He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:12

1 Kings 12:6⁶King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 12:12Job 32:71 Kgs 4:22 Sam 16:202 Sam 17:5Jer 42:2-5Jer 43:2Prov 27:10

1 Kings 12:7⁷They said to him, “Today if you will be a servant to these people and grant their request, speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 15:11 Kgs 12:132 Chr 10:6-72 Sam 15:3-6Eccl 10:4Mark 10:43-44Phil 2:7-11Zech 1:13

1 Kings 12:8⁸But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 19:202 Chr 10:82 Chr 25:15-16Eccl 10:2-3Prov 1:2-5Prov 1:25Prov 1:30Prov 25:12

1 Kings 12:9⁹He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:6-82 Chr 10:92 Chr 18:5-72 Sam 17:5-6

1 Kings 12:10¹⁰The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ Say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 10:10-112 Sam 17:7-13Isa 47:6Prov 10:14Prov 18:6-7Prov 28:25Prov 29:23

1 Kings 12:11¹¹My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:141 Sam 8:182 Chr 16:10Exod 1:13-14Exod 5:18Exod 5:5-9Ezek 2:6Isa 58:6Jer 27:11Jer 28:13-14

1 Kings 12:12¹²Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:52 Chr 10:12-14

1 Kings 12:13¹³The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older menCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 10:12Jas 3:17Prov 10:11Prov 10:32Prov 13:20Prov 18:231 Kgs 20:6-111 Sam 20:101 Sam 20:30-311 Sam 25:10-11

1 Kings 12:14¹⁴and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:10-11Exod 5:16-18Exod 5:5-92 Chr 22:4-5Dan 6:7Eccl 7:8Esth 1:16-21Esth 2:2-4Exod 1:14Isa 19:11-13

1 Kings 12:15¹⁵The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:242 Chr 25:20Deut 2:30Judg 14:41 Kgs 11:29-381 Kgs 11:112 Chr 10:152 Chr 22:71 Kgs 22:232 Chr 25:16

1 Kings 12:16¹⁶When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Return to your homes, O Israel! Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” So Israel returned to their homes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 20:11 Kgs 22:171 Kgs 22:362 Chr 10:16Jer 23:5-6Jer 33:15-16Jer 33:211 Kgs 11:131 Kgs 11:341 Kgs 11:36

1 Kings 12:17¹⁷(Rehoboam continued to rule over the Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:131 Kgs 11:362 Chr 10:172 Chr 11:13-17

1 Kings 12:18¹⁸King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the supervisor of the work crews, out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 4:61 Kgs 5:142 Sam 20:24Acts 7:57-581 Kgs 20:18-202 Chr 10:182 Chr 24:21Acts 5:26Amos 2:16Exod 17:4

1 Kings 12:19¹⁹So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:212 Chr 10:191 Sam 10:192 Chr 13:172 Chr 13:5-7Heb 6:6Isa 7:17Josh 4:9

1 Kings 12:20²⁰When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:131 Kgs 11:321 Kgs 11:361 Kgs 12:171 Sam 10:24Hos 8:4Hos 11:12

1 Kings 12:21²¹When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 11:1-31 Chr 21:52 Chr 14:112 Chr 14:82 Chr 17:14-19Prov 21:30-31

1 Kings 12:22²²But God told Shemaiah the prophet,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 11:21 Kgs 13:11 Kgs 13:111 Kgs 13:4-51 Kgs 17:181 Kgs 17:241 Tim 6:112 Chr 12:5-72 Kgs 4:162 Kgs 4:22

1 Kings 12:23²³“Say this to King Rehoboam son of Solomon of Judah, and to all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the rest of the people,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:17

1 Kings 12:24²⁴‘This is what the Lord has said: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home. Indeed this thing has happened because of me.”’” So they obeyed the Lord’ s message. They went home in keeping with the Lord’ s message.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:29-381 Kgs 12:152 Chr 11:42 Chr 25:7-8Num 14:422 Chr 25:10Hos 8:42 Chr 28:9-15

1 Kings 12:25²⁵Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 8:17Judg 8:8Gen 32:30-31Judg 9:45-491 Kgs 12:11 Kgs 15:171 Kgs 16:241 Kgs 9:151 Kgs 9:17-182 Chr 11:5-12

1 Kings 12:26²⁶Jeroboam then thought to himself: “Now the Davidic dynasty could regain the kingdom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:381 Sam 27:12 Chr 20:20Acts 4:16-17Isa 7:9Jer 38:18-21John 11:47-50John 12:10-11John 12:19Luke 7:39

1 Kings 12:27²⁷If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the Lord ’s temple in Jerusalem, their loyalty could shift to their former master, King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:14Deut 12:5-7Deut 16:6Prov 29:251 Cor 1:19-201 Kgs 11:321 Kgs 8:29-301 Kgs 8:44Deut 16:2Gen 12:12-13

1 Kings 12:28²⁸After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 32:42 Kgs 10:292 Kgs 17:16Exod 32:82 Chr 11:15Hos 8:4-71 Kgs 12:8-92 Pet 2:19Deut 4:14-18Exod 1:10

1 Kings 12:29²⁹He put one in Bethel and the other in Dan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:19Judg 18:27-312 Kgs 10:29Amos 8:14Deut 34:1Gen 12:8Gen 14:14Gen 35:1Hos 4:15Jer 8:16

1 Kings 12:30³⁰This caused Israel to sin; the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:211 Kgs 13:342 Kgs 10:31

1 Kings 12:31³¹He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:32-332 Chr 13:92 Kgs 17:322 Chr 11:14-15Num 3:101 Kgs 13:24Deut 24:15Ezek 16:25Ezek 44:6-8Hos 12:11

1 Kings 12:32³²Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival celebrated in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:21 Kgs 8:5Amos 7:10-13Num 29:12-40Ezek 43:8Lev 23:33-44Matt 15:8-9

1 Kings 12:33³³On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:1Num 15:391 Sam 13:122 Chr 26:6Isa 29:13Mark 7:13Matt 15:6Ps 106:39