1 E foi Roboão a Siquém, porque todo o Israel se reunira ali, para fazê-lo rei.
2 Sucedeu que, ouvindo-o Jero-boão, filho de Nebate (o qual estava então no Egito para onde fugira da presença do rei Salomão), voltou do Egito,
3 Porque enviaram a ele, e o chamaram; e vieram, Jeroboão e todo o Israel, e falaram a Roboão dizendo:
4 Teu pai fez duro o nosso jugo; agora, pois, alivia tu a dura servidão de teu pai, e o pesado jugo que nos impôs, e nós te serviremos.
5 E ele lhes disse: Daqui a três dias voltai a mim. Então o povo se foi.
6 E tomou Roboão conselho com os anciãos, que estiveram perante Salomão seu pai, enquanto viveu, dizendo: Como aconselhais vós que se responda a este povo?
7 E eles lhe falaram, dizendo: Se te fizeres benigno e afável para com este povo, e lhes falares boas palavras, todos os dias serão teus servos.
8 Porém ele deixou o conselho que os anciãos lhe deram; e tomou conselho com os jovens, que haviam crescido com ele, e estavam perante ele.
9 E disse-lhes: Que aconselhais vós, que respondamos a este povo, que me falou, dizendo: Alivia o jugo que teu pai nos impôs?
10 E os jovens, que com ele haviam crescido, lhe falaram, dizendo: Assim dirás a este povo, que te falou: Teu pai agravou o nosso jugo, tu porém alivia-nos; assim, pois, lhe falarás: O meu dedo mínimo é mais grosso do que os lombos de meu pai.
11 Assim que, se meu pai vos carregou de um jugo pesado, eu ainda aumentarei o vosso jugo; meu pai vos castigou com açoites, porém eu vos castigarei com escorpiões.
12 Veio, pois, Jeroboão, e todo o povo, ao terceiro dia, a Roboão, como o rei havia ordenado, dizendo: Voltai a mim ao terceiro dia.
13 E o rei lhes respondeu asperamente; porque o rei Roboão deixara o conselho dos anciãos.
14 E falou-lhes conforme o conselho dos jovens, dizendo: Meu pai agravou o vosso jugo, porém eu o aumentarei mais; meu pai vos castigou com açoites, porém eu vos castigarei com escorpiões.
15 Assim o rei não deu ouvidos ao povo, porque esta mudança vinha de Deus, para que o Senhor confirmasse a sua palavra, a qual falara pelo ministério de Aías, o silonita, a Jeroboão, filho de Nebate.
16 Vendo, pois, todo o Israel, que o rei não lhe dava ouvidos, tornou-lhe o povo a responder, dizendo: Que parte temos nós com Davi? Já não temos herança no filho de Jessé. Cada um à sua tenda, ó Israel! Olha agora pela tua casa, ó Davi. Assim todo o Israel se foi para as suas tendas.
17 Porém, quanto aos filhos de Israel, que habitavam nas cidades de Judá, sobre eles reinou Roboão.
18 Então o rei Roboão enviou a Hadorão, que tinha cargo dos tributos; porém os filhos de Israel o apedrejaram, e ele morreu. Então o rei Roboão se esforçou para subir ao seu carro, e fugiu para Jerusalém.
19 Assim se rebelaram os israelitas contra a casa de Davi, até ao dia de hoje.
1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.
2 And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt.
3 And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
4 Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
5 And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.
6 Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?
7 And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.
8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.
9 And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?
10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.
13 And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,
14 But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
15 So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.
16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.
17 But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.
18 Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.
19 So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.