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2 Chronicles 9
³⁰ Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel.
³¹ And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 10
¹ Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
² When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon), Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
³ So they sent and summoned him. When Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
⁴ "Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you."
⁵ He said to them, "Return to me again in three days." So the people departed.
⁶ Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer this people?"
⁷ They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."
⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.
⁹ So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, ’Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?"