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.

1 Profectus est autem Roboam in Sichem : illuc enim cunctus Isral convenerat ut constituerent eum regem. 2 Quod cum audisset Jeroboam filius Nabat, qui erat in gypto (fugerat quippe illuc ante Salomonem), statim reversus est. 3 Vocaveruntque eum, et venit cum universo Isral : et locuti sunt ad Roboam, dicentes : 4 Pater tuus durissimo jugo nos pressit : tu leviora impera patre tuo, qui nobis imposuit gravem servitutem, et paululum de onere subleva, ut serviamus tibi. 5 Qui ait : Post tres dies revertimini ad me. Cumque abiisset populus, 6 iniit consilium cum senibus qui steterant coram patre ejus Salomone dum adhuc viveret, dicens : Quid datis consilii ut respondeam populo ? 7 Qui dixerunt ei : Si placueris populo huic, et leniveris eos verbis clementibus, servient tibi omni tempore. 8 At ille reliquit consilium senum, et cum juvenibus tractare cpit, qui cum eo nutriti fuerant, et erant in comitatu illius. 9 Dixitque ad eos : Quid vobis videtur ? vel respondere quid debeo populo huic, qui dixit mihi : Subleva jugum quod imposuit nobis pater tuus ? 10 At illi responderunt ut juvenes, et nutriti cum eo in deliciis, atque dixerunt : Sic loqueris populo qui dixit tibi : Pater tuus aggravavit jugum nostrum, tu subleva : et sic respondebis ei : Minimus digitus meus grossior est lumbis patris mei. 11 Pater meus imposuit vobis grave jugum, et ego majus pondus apponam ; pater meus cecidit vos flagellis, ego vero cdam vos scorpionibus. 12 Venit ergo Jeroboam et universus populus ad Roboam die tertio, sicut prceperat eis. 13 Responditque rex dura, derelicto consilio seniorum : 14 locutusque est juxta juvenum voluntatem : Pater meus grave vobis imposuit jugum, quod ego gravius faciam ; pater meus cecidit vos flagellis, ego vero cdam vos scorpionibus. 15 Et non acquievit populi precibus : erat enim voluntatis Dei ut compleretur sermo ejus quem locutus fuerat per manum Ahi Silonitis ad Jeroboam filium Nabat. 16 Populus autem universus rege duriora dicente, sic locutus est ad eum : Non est nobis pars in David, neque hreditas in filio Isai. Revertere in tabernacula tua, Isral ; tu autem pasce domum tuam David. Et abiit Isral in tabernacula sua. 17 Super filios autem Isral qui habitabant in civitatibus Juda, regnavit Roboam. 18 Misitque rex Roboam Aduram, qui prerat tributis, et lapidaverunt eum filii Isral, et mortuus est : porro rex Roboam currum festinavit ascendere, et fugit in Jerusalem. 19 Recessitque Isral a domo David, usque ad diem hanc.