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King Rehoboam sought advice from the elderly counselors who served his father Solomon while he was still alive, and he asked them, "How would you advise me to answer this people?" (1 Kings 12, 6)
To this they replied, "If you attend to this people today making yourself their servant and speak to them with good words, they will serve you forever." (1 Kings 12, 7)
He asked them, "What do you say we should answer this people who tell me: 'Lighten the yoke which your father imposed on us'?" (1 Kings 12, 9)
The greenhorns who had grown up with him answered, "Since these people said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should now lighten it for us,' tell them this: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist. (1 Kings 12, 10)
On the third day, Jeroboam together with the people went back to Rehoboam just as the king said, for he had said to them, "Come back on the third day." (1 Kings 12, 12)
the king answered the people harshly in the way the greenhorns had advised him. He said, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will make it even heavier. My father chastised you with whips, but I will fix iron points to the lashes." (1 Kings 12, 14)
The king did not listen to the people. It was, indeed, Yahweh who brought about this fateful event, fulfilling the word he had spoken to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, through Ahijah the Shilonite. (1 Kings 12, 15)
All Israel realized that the king refused to listen to them, and they answered the same way, "What have we to do with David? Is the son of Jesse from our tribes? Let the son of David deal with his own and you, people of Israel, go back to your homes!" And so the Israelites left for their homes. (1 Kings 12, 16)
When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he called together all the people of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, numbering a hundred and eighty thousand select warriors, to fight against the people of Israel in a bid to restore the kingship of Rehoboam, son of Solomon. (1 Kings 12, 21)
"Give Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, and all the people of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, this message from Yahweh: (1 Kings 12, 23)
Should this people go up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh's House in Jerusalem, their heart would turn again to their master, Rehoboam king of Judah. They would kill me and go back to him." (1 Kings 12, 27)
And so the king sought advice and made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, "You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt." (1 Kings 12, 28)
