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Five hundred and fifty overseers king Solomon had, to hold the people to their appointed tasks.) (1 Kings 9, 23)
Give me two days, said he, and then come back to hear my answer. So, when the people had left him, (1 Kings 12, 5)
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)
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)
Here is a message for Roboam, son of Solomon, king of Juda, and for the men of Juda and Benjamin, the loyal remnant of the people. (1 Kings 12, 23)
Jeroboam made shrines, too, on the hill-tops, and chose men to be priests here and there and everywhere among the people, men that were not of Levi’s race. (1 Kings 12, 31)
All this notwithstanding, Jeroboam would not amend his sinful ways; still he appointed priests here and there and everywhere among the people, consecrating the first comer to minister at his hill-shrines. (1 Kings 13, 33)
Go and give Jeroboam this message from the Lord God of Israel: Was it for this I chose thee out among the common folk, and gave thee command of my people Israel, (1 Kings 14, 7)
