14 and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy,[a](A) but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.”

15 The king did not listen to the people because the turn of events came from God,(B) in order that the Lord might carry out his word that he had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.(C)

16 When(D) all Israel saw[b](E) that the king had not listened to them, the people answered the king:

What portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
Israel, each to your tent;
David, look after your own house now!

So all Israel went to their tents.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:14 Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss read I will make your yoke heavy; 1Kg 12:14
  2. 10:16 Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss omit saw; 1Kg 12:16

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