12Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, "Come back to me in three days."
12Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, "Come back to me in three days."
9 He asked them, "What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?"
10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, "Tell these people who have said to you, 'Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter'-tell them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
11 My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.' "
12 Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, "Come back to me in three days."
13 The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,
14 he followed the advice of the young men and said, "My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions."
12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.
12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
12:12And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed saying, Come again to me on the third day.
12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, |Come to me again the third day.|
12:12And they come — Jeroboam and all the people — unto Rehoboam, on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, 'Come back unto me on the third day.'
12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.