Discovery Box| (1.00) | 1Ki 11:17 |
| Hadad, 1 who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 11:28 |
| Jeroboam was a talented man; 1 when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe 2 of Joseph. |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 11:30 |
| and he grabbed the robe 1 and tore it into twelve pieces. |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 11:33 |
| I am taking the kingdom from him 1 because they have 2 abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions 3 by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. 4 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 11:41 |
| The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, including all his accomplishments and his wise decisions, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of Solomon. 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:4 |
| “Your father made us work too hard. 1 Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:7 |
| They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:10 |
| The young advisers with whom Rehoboam 1 had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ 2 Say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father! 3 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:15 |
| The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events 1 so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made 2 through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat. |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:16 |
| When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! 1 Return to your homes, O Israel! 2 Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” 3 So Israel returned to their homes. 4 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:18 |
| King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, 1 the supervisor of the work crews, 2 out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 3 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:20 |
| When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty. 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:22 |
| But God told Shemaiah the prophet, 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:24 |
| ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” 1 They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:27 |
| If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, 1 their loyalty could shift to their former master, 2 King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.” |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:28 |
| After the king had consulted with his advisers, 1 he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, 2 “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:30 |
| This caused Israel to sin; 1 the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves. 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:31 |
| He built temples 1 on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites. |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:32 |
| Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, 1 like the festival celebrated in Judah. 2 On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. 3 In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made. |
| (1.00) | 1Ki 12:33 |
| On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) 1 Jeroboam 2 offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. 3 He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices. |
