Rehoboam Rejects the Elders' Advice
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And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
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and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of Jehovah, that he might establish his word, which Jehovah spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Bible text: American Standard Version (1901) · Public domain