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1 And Rehoboam will go to Shechem: for to Shechem came all Israel to make him king. 2 And it will be as Jeroboam son of Nebat heard, and he in Egypt where he fled from the face of Solomon the king, and Jeroboam will turn back from Egypt. 3 And they will send and call to him. And Jeroboam will come, and all Israel, and they will speak to Rehoboam, saying, 4 Thy father hardened our yoke: and now lighten from the hard servitude of thy father, and from his heavy yoke which he gave upon us, and we will serve thee. 5 And he will say to them, Yet three days and turn back to me. And the people will go. 6 And king Rehoboam will consult with the old men who were standing before Solomon his father in his being alive, saying, How counsel ye me to turn back word to this people? 7 And they will speak to him, saying, If thou wilt be for good to this people, and pleasing them, and speak to them good words, and they were servants to thee all the days. 8 And he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled, and he will consult the children which grew up with him, standing before him. 2 Chronicles 10:1-8, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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