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Shut I the heavens, so that no rain should fall, give I charge to the locust to ravage the country-side, send I pestilence to destroy my people; (2 Chronicles 7, 13)
if they, this people of mine, thus dedicated to my name, will betake themselves to my presence in entreaty, and repent of their ill doings, I, in heaven, will listen, will pardon their sins, will bring healing to their country. (2 Chronicles 7, 14)
Five hundred and fifty captains king Solomon had, that issued his commands to the people at large. (2 Chronicles 8, 10)
Give me three days, he said, and then come back to hear my answer. So, when the people had left him, (2 Chronicles 10, 5)
he asked advice first of the older men that had been courtiers in the life-time of his father; what answer should he make to the people? (2 Chronicles 10, 6)
How think you? he asked. What answer shall I make to the people’s request that I would lighten the yoke my father laid on them? (2 Chronicles 10, 9)
So the third day came, and Jeroboam, with all the people at his back, kept their tryst with him. (2 Chronicles 10, 12)
And the king, instead of heeding the advice which the older men had given him, spoke to the people harshly, (2 Chronicles 10, 13)
Thus the king refused to fall in with the people’s request; the Lord’s will was to give effect to the promise he had made, through Ahias the Silonite, to Jeroboam son of Nabat. (2 Chronicles 10, 15)
The people, thus churlishly answered, cried out, David is none of ours, not for us the son of Jesse; go back, men of Israel, to your homes! David’s rule for David’s tribe! And with that, Israel dispersed to their homes, (2 Chronicles 10, 16)
Now that Roboam was strong, and firmly seated on his throne, he defied the divine law, and all his people did the like.✻ (2 Chronicles 12, 1)
So Roboam took courage, and ruled his people yet. He was forty-one years old when he came to the throne, and for seventeen years he reigned at Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose, out of all Israel’s tribes, to be the shrine of his name. His mother was called Naama, an Ammonitess. (2 Chronicles 12, 13)
