1╦╔ 12:1 ┴ND ╥EHOBOAM WENT TO ╙HECHEM: FOR ALL ╔SRAEL WERE COME TO ╙HECHEM TO MAKE HIM KING.
1╦╔ 12:2 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ╩EROBOAM THE SON OF ╬EBAT, WHO WAS YET IN ┼GYPT, HEARD OF IT, (FOR HE WAS FLED FROM THE PRESENCE OF KING ╙OLOMON, AND ╩EROBOAM DWELT IN ┼GYPT;)
1╦╔ 12:3 ╘HAT THEY SENT AND CALLED HIM. ┴ND ╩EROBOAM AND ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ╔SRAEL CAME, AND SPAKE UNTO ╥EHOBOAM, SAYING,
1╦╔ 12:4 ╘HY FATHER MADE OUR YOKE GRIEVOUS: NOW THEREFORE MAKE THOU THE GRIEVOUS SERVICE OF THY FATHER, AND HIS HEAVY YOKE WHICH HE PUT UPON US, LIGHTER, AND WE WILL SERVE THEE.
1╦╔ 12:5 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO THEM, ─EPART YET FOR THREE DAYS, THEN COME AGAIN TO ME. ┴ND THE PEOPLE DEPARTED.
1╦╔ 12:6 ┴ND KING ╥EHOBOAM CONSULTED WITH THE OLD MEN, THAT STOOD BEFORE ╙OLOMON HIS FATHER WHILE HE YET LIVED, AND SAID, ╚OW DO YE ADVISE THAT ╔ MAY ANSWER THIS PEOPLE?
1╦╔ 12:7 ┴ND THEY SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, ╔F THOU WILT BE A SERVANT UNTO THIS PEOPLE THIS DAY, AND WILT SERVE THEM, AND ANSWER THEM, AND SPEAK GOOD WORDS TO THEM, THEN THEY WILL BE THY SERVANTS FOR EVER.
1╦╔ 12:8 ┬UT HE FORSOOK THE COUNSEL OF THE OLD MEN, WHICH THEY HAD GIVEN HIM, AND CONSULTED WITH THE YOUNG MEN THAT WERE GROWN UP WITH HIM, AND WHICH STOOD BEFORE HIM:
1╦╔ 12:9 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO THEM, ╫HAT COUNSEL GIVE YE THAT WE MAY ANSWER THIS PEOPLE, WHO HAVE SPOKEN TO ME, SAYING, ═AKE THE YOKE WHICH THY FATHER DID PUT UPON US LIGHTER?
1╦╔ 12:10 ┴ND THE YOUNG MEN THAT WERE GROWN UP WITH HIM SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, ╘HUS SHALT THOU SPEAK UNTO THIS PEOPLE THAT SPAKE UNTO THEE, SAYING, ╘HY FATHER MADE OUR YOKE HEAVY, BUT MAKE THOU IT LIGHTER UNTO US; THUS SHALT THOU SAY UNTO THEM, ═Y LITTLE FINGER SHALL BE THICKER THAN MY FATHER'S LOINS.
1╦╔ 12:11 ┴ND NOW WHEREAS MY FATHER DID LADE YOU WITH A HEAVY YOKE, ╔ WILL ADD TO YOUR YOKE: MY FATHER HATH CHASTISED YOU WITH WHIPS, BUT ╔ WILL CHASTISE YOU WITH SCORPIONS.
1╦╔ 12:12 ╙O ╩EROBOAM AND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO ╥EHOBOAM THE THIRD DA , AS THE KING HAD APPOINTED, SAYING, ├OME TO ME AGAIN THE THIRD DAY.
1╦╔ 12:13 ┴ND THE KING ANSWERED THE PEOPLE ROUGHLY, AND FORSOOK THE OLD MEN'S COUNSEL THAT THEY GAVE HIM;
1╦╔ 12:14 ┴ND SPAKE TO THEM AFTER THE COUNSEL OF THE YOUNG MEN, SAYING, ═Y FATHER MADE YOUR YOKE HEAVY, AND ╔ WILL ADD TO YOUR YOKE: MY FATHER ALSO CHASTISED YOU WITH WHIPS, BUT ╔ WILL CHASTISE YOU WITH SCORPIONS.
1╦╔ 12:15 ╫HEREFORE THE KING HEARKENED NOT UNTO THE PEOPLE; FOR THE CAUSE WAS FROM THE ╠╧╥─, THAT HE MIGHT PERFORM HIS SAYING, WHICH THE ╠╧╥─ SPAKE BY ┴HIJAH THE ╙HILONITE UNTO ╩EROBOAM THE SON OF ╬EBAT.
1╦╔ 12:16 ╙O WHEN ALL ╔SRAEL SAW THAT THE KING HEARKENED NOT UNTO THEM, THE PEOPLE ANSWERED THE KING, SAYING, ╫HAT PORTION HAVE WE IN ─AVID? NEITHER HAVE WE INHERITANCE IN THE SON OF ╩ESSE: TO YOUR TENTS, ╧ ╔SRAEL: NOW SEE TO THINE OWN HOUSE, ─AVID. ╙O ╔SRAEL DEPARTED UNTO THEIR TENTS.
1╦╔ 12:17 ┬UT AS FOR THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL WHICH DWELT IN THE CITIES OF ╩UDAH, ╥EHOBOAM REIGNED OVER THEM.
1╦╔ 12:18 ╘HEN KING ╥EHOBOAM SENT ┴DORAM, WHO WAS OVER THE TRIBUTE; AND ALL ╔SRAEL STONED HIM WITH STONES, THAT HE DIED. ╘HEREFORE KING ╥EHOBOAM MADE SPEED TO GET HIM UP TO HIS CHARIOT, TO FLEE TO ╩ERUSALEM.
1╦╔ 12:19 ╙O ╔SRAEL REBELLED AGAINST THE HOUSE OF ─AVID UNTO THIS DAY.
1╦╔ 12:20 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL ╔SRAEL HEARD THAT ╩EROBOAM WAS COME AGAIN, THAT THEY SENT AND CALLED HIM UNTO THE CONGREGATION, AND MADE HIM KING OVER ALL ╔SRAEL: THERE WAS NONE THAT FOLLOWED THE HOUSE OF ─AVID, BUT THE TRIBE OF ╩UDAH ONLY.
1╦╔ 12:21 ┴ND WHEN ╥EHOBOAM WAS COME TO ╩ERUSALEM, HE ASSEMBLED ALL THE HOUSE OF ╩UDAH, WITH THE TRIBE OF ┬ENJAMIN, AN HUNDRED AND FOURSCORE THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN, WHICH WERE WARRIORS, TO FIGHT AGAINST THE HOUSE OF ╔SRAEL, TO BRING THE KINGDOM AGAIN TO ╥EHOBOAM THE SON OF ╙OLOMON.
1╦╔ 12:22 ┬UT THE WORD OF ╟OD CAME UNTO ╙HEMAIAH THE MAN OF ╟OD, SAYING,
1╦╔ 12:23 ╙PEAK UNTO ╥EHOBOAM, THE SON OF ╙OLOMON, KING OF ╩UDAH, AND UNTO ALL THE HOUSE OF ╩UDAH AND ┬ENJAMIN, AND TO THE REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE, SAYING,
1╦╔ 12:24 ╘HUS SAITH THE ╠╧╥─, ┘E SHALL NOT GO UP, NOR FIGHT AGAINST YOUR BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL: RETURN EVERY MAN TO HIS HOUSE; FOR THIS THING IS FROM ME. ╘HEY HEARKENED THEREFORE TO THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─, AND RETURNED TO DEPART, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─.
1╦╔ 12:25 ╘HEN ╩EROBOAM BUILT ╙HECHEM IN MOUNT ┼PHRAIM, AND DWELT THEREIN; AND WENT OUT FROM THENCE, AND BUILT ╨ENUEL.
1╦╔ 12:26 ┴ND ╩EROBOAM SAID IN HIS HEART, ╬OW SHALL THE KINGDOM RETURN TO THE HOUSE OF ─AVID:
1╦╔ 12:27 ╔F THIS PEOPLE GO UP TO DO SACRIFICE IN THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─ AT ╩ERUSALEM, THEN SHALL THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE TURN AGAIN UNTO THEIR LORD, EVEN UNTO ╥EHOBOAM KING OF ╩UDAH, AND THEY SHALL KILL ME, AND GO AGAIN TO ╥EHOBOAM KING OF ╩UDAH.
1╦╔ 12:28 ╫HEREUPON THE KING TOOK COUNSEL, AND MADE TWO CALVES OF GOLD, AND SAID UNTO THEM, ╔T IS TOO MUCH FOR YOU TO GO UP TO ╩ERUSALEM: BEHOLD THY GODS, ╧ ╔SRAEL, WHICH BROUGHT THEE UP OUT OF THE LAND OF ┼GYPT.
1╦╔ 12:29 ┴ND HE SET THE ONE IN ┬ETHEL, AND THE OTHER PUT HE IN ─AN.
1╦╔ 12:30 ┴ND THIS THING BECAME A SIN: FOR THE PEOPLE WENT TO WORSHIP BEFORE THE ONE, EVEN UNTO ─AN.
1╦╔ 12:31 ┴ND HE MADE AN HOUSE OF HIGH PLACES, AND MADE PRIESTS OF THE LOWEST OF THE PEOPLE, WHICH WERE NOT OF THE SONS OF ╠EVI.
1╦╔ 12:32 ┴ND ╩EROBOAM ORDAINED A FEAST IN THE EIGHTH MONTH, ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, LIKE UNTO THE FEAST THAT IS IN ╩UDAH, AND HE OFFERED UPON THE ALTAR. ╙O DID HE IN ┬ETHEL, SACRIFICING UNTO THE CALVES THAT HE HAD MADE: AND HE PLACED IN ┬ETHEL THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES WHICH HE HAD MADE.
1╦╔ 12:33 ╙O HE OFFERED UPON THE ALTAR WHICH HE HAD MADE IN ┬ETHEL THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE EIGHTH MONTH, EVEN IN THE MONTH WHICH HE HAD DEVISED OF HIS OWN HEART; AND ORDAINED A FEAST UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL: AND HE OFFERED UPON THE ALTAR, AND BURNT INCENSE.
