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They replied, 'If you are fair to these people, pleasant to them and give them a fair reply, they will remain your servants for ever.' (2 Chronicles 10, 7)
He said, 'How do you advise us to answer these people who have been saying, "Lighten the yoke which your father imposed on us"?' (2 Chronicles 10, 9)
The young men who had grown up with him replied, 'This is the way to answer the people who have been saying, "Your father made our yoke heavy, you must lighten it for us!" This is the right thing to say to them, "My little finger is thicker than my father's loins! (2 Chronicles 10, 10)
On the third day, Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam in obedience to the king's instructions, 'Come back to me in three days' time.' (2 Chronicles 10, 12)
Thus the king refused to listen to the people, and this was brought about by God, so that Yahweh might fulfil the promise which he had made through Ahijah of Shiloh to Jeroboam son of Nebat. (2 Chronicles 10, 15)
When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king thus: What share have we in David? -no heritage in the son of Jesse! Each of you, to your tents, Israel! Now look to your own house, David! So Israel went home again. (2 Chronicles 10, 16)
Thus he was able to strengthen his position in Jerusalem and continue as king; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he came to the throne and remained king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city chosen by Yahweh from all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. (2 Chronicles 12, 13)
In those times there was no security for people as they went about their business, but great unrest affecting the inhabitants of all countries, (2 Chronicles 15, 5)
He summoned all Judah and Benjamin as well as those Ephraimites, Manassehites and Simeonites who had settled with them -- for a great many people from Israel had gone over to Asa when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him. (2 Chronicles 15, 9)
Enraged with the seer, Asa had him put in the stocks in prison, being angry with him over this; at the same time Asa ill-treated some of the people too. (2 Chronicles 16, 10)
They gave instruction in Judah, having with them the book of the Law of Yahweh, and went round all the towns of Judah instructing the people. (2 Chronicles 17, 9)
Jehoshaphat resided in Jerusalem but regularly went on progress among the people, from Beersheba to the highlands of Ephraim, to convert them to Yahweh, God of their ancestors. (2 Chronicles 19, 4)
