Trouvé 3602 Résultats pour: King Of Israel
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)
and he, too, was summoned to meet them. He, and all Israel with him, came to make a request of Roboam; (1 Kings 12, 3)
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)
none but the Israelites living in the cities of Juda would acknowledge Roboam as king. (1 Kings 12, 17)
And now, when Adoram, who had charge of the levy, came to them in the king’s name, the Israelites stoned him to death; whereupon Roboam mounted his chariot and betook himself, with all speed, to Jerusalem. (1 Kings 12, 18)
From that day to this, the men of Israel have refused allegiance to the dynasty of David. (1 Kings 12, 19)
Hearing of Jeroboam’s return, they met and summoned him to be present; and so they made him king of all Israel, leaving none to take part with David’s line except the one tribe of Juda. (1 Kings 12, 20)
Roboam, indeed, upon reaching Jerusalem, mustered the whole tribe of Juda, including Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand choice warriors, to make war on the men of Israel; their cry was that Roboam, Solomon’s heir, must be restored to his kingdom. (1 Kings 12, 21)
