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this Jeroboam was a warrior at the height of his strength, and Solomon marked him out for a young man gifted and active, so he put him in charge of the labour that was exacted from the northern tribes.✻ (1 Kings 11, 28)
bade Jeroboam take ten of them; This message, said he, the Lord God of Israel sends thee, I mean to wrest the kingship from the power of Solomon, and make over ten tribes to thee. (1 Kings 11, 31)
On thee my choice shall fall; thou shalt have power to thy heart’s content, the king of Israel. (1 Kings 11, 37)
Solomon would fain have put Jeroboam to death, but he was up and gone; he took refuge with Sesac king of Egypt, and remained there till Solomon’s death. (1 Kings 11, 40)
As for the rest of Solomon’s life and doings, and the stories told of his wisdom, they are all to be found in the Annals of king Solomon. (1 Kings 11, 41)
This Roboam betook himself to Sichem; at Sichem the whole of Israel had assembled to crown him king. (1 Kings 12, 1)
But meanwhile Jeroboam, son of Nabat, who had fled to Egypt to be out of king Solomon’s reach, had come back home upon hearing the news of his death; (1 Kings 12, 2)
king Roboam asked advice first of the older men that had been courtiers in the life-time of his father, king Solomon; what answer should he make to the people? (1 Kings 12, 6)
So the third day came, and Jeroboam, with all the people at his back, kept the tryst which the king had made with them for the third day following. (1 Kings 12, 12)
And the king, instead of heeding the advice which the older men had given, spoke to the people harshly, (1 Kings 12, 13)
Thus the king refused to fall in with his people’s will; the Lord had left him to his own devices, in fulfilment of the promise Ahias the Silonite made, in his name, to Jeroboam son of Nabat. (1 Kings 12, 15)
And when the people found that the king would not listen to them, they were quick with their answer. David is none of ours, they cried; not for us the son of Jesse; go back, men of Israel, to your homes! Let David look to the affairs of his own tribe! And with that, the people dispersed to their homes; (1 Kings 12, 16)
