12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, |Come to me again the third day.|


In Context

9 He said to them, |What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?'|

10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, |Thus you shall tell this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;' you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.

11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'|

12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, |Come to me again the third day.|

13 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, |My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.|

1 Kings 12:12 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:12Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, "Come back to me in three days."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.