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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)
and when he was laid to rest with his fathers, they buried him, David’s heir, in David’s Keep. And he was succeeded by his son Roboam. (1 Kings 11, 43)
Thy father, they said, made us bear a bitter yoke. That cruel sway of his, that hard yoke, do thou mitigate, and we will be thy servants on that condition. (1 Kings 12, 4)
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)
How think you, he asked, I should make answer to the people’s request, that I would lighten the yoke my father laid on them? (1 Kings 12, 9)
And these, men of his own upbringing, 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; (1 Kings 12, 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.✻ (1 Kings 12, 11)
with such words as the younger men had prescribed to him. If my father’s yoke fell heavy on you, he told them, mine shall be heavier still; if his weapon was the lash, mine shall be the scorpion. (1 Kings 12, 14)
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)
And he offered them proof, there and then; Here is a sign, he told them, to prove that this message comes from the Lord; see if this altar does not fall apart, and spill the ashes it holds! (1 Kings 13, 3)
