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And he assigned to the priests the duties they were to perform, as his father David had prescribed them; and to the Levites their duties of singing praise, and of helping the priests with their task, as the needs of each day required; and to the door-keepers their various posts. All that God’s servant David had enjoined must be done; (2 Chronicles 8, 14)
And now Solomon was visited by the queen of Saba. His fame had reached her, and she came to make trial of his power with knotty questions. Great was the wealth she brought with her to Jerusalem; her camels were loaded with spices and abundant gold and precious stones. And when she met Solomon, she told him all the thoughts that exercised her mind; (2 Chronicles 9, 1)
And she said to the king, It was no false tale I heard in my own country, of the powers thou hast, of the wisdom which is thine. (2 Chronicles 9, 5)
then they laid him to rest with his fathers, with the Keep of David for his burying-place, and the throne passed to his son Roboam. (2 Chronicles 9, 31)
Thy father, they said, made us bear a bitter yoke. Less thou must ask of us than those cruel exactions, those stern commands, if we are ever to be servants of thine. (2 Chronicles 10, 4)
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)
Why, they told him, if thou wilt but court their favour, and win them with gracious words, they will never cease giving thee loyal service. (2 Chronicles 10, 7)
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)
And these, men that had been brought up with him in luxurious ways, gave him advice in their turn. Do they complain that thy father laid a heavy yoke on them, and ask for relief? Then tell them there is more strength in thy little finger than in all the breadth of thy father’s back; (2 Chronicles 10, 10)
if his yoke fell heavy on them, thine shall be heavier still, if thy father’s weapon was the lash, thine shall be the scorpion. (2 Chronicles 10, 11)
with such words as the younger men would have him use, If my father’s yoke fell heavy on you, mine shall be heavier still, if his weapon was the lash, mine shall be the scorpion. (2 Chronicles 10, 14)
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)
