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Partiu Roboão para Siquém; pois todo o Israel se tinha ajuntado ali para o constituir rei. 
O que tendo ouvido Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, (pois estava no Egito, para onde tinha fugido da presença do rei Salomão), voltou do Egito. 
Mandaram chamá-lo; Jeroboão e todo o Israel vieram e falaram a Roboão: 
Teu pai fez duro o nosso jugo: agora alivia a dura servidão de teu pai, e o jugo pesado que nos impôs, e te serviremos. 
Ele lhes respondeu: Tornai a vir ter comigo depois de três dias. Então o povo se foi. 
Teve Roboão conselho com os homens idosos, que tinham assistido diante de seu pai Salomão, quando ainda vivia, dizendo: Que me aconselhais vós que responda a este povo? 
Responderam-lhe eles: Se te fizeres benigno para com este povo e lhes agradares, e lhes falares boas palavras, eles te servirão para sempre. 
Mas ele desaprovou o conselho que os homens idosos lhe haviam dado, e teve conselho com os moços que haviam crescido com ele, e lhe assistiam. 
Perguntou-lhes: Que aconselhais vós que respondamos a este povo que me disse: Alivia o jugo que teu pai nos impôs? 
Responderam-lhe os moços que haviam crescido com ele: Assim dirás a este povo que te falou: Teu pai fez pesado o nosso jugo, mas alivia-o tu; assim lhes responderás: O meu dedo mínimo é mais grosso do que os lombos de meu pai. 
Agora visto que meu pai vos carregou dum jugo pesado, eu acrescentarei ainda sobre o vosso jugo; meu pai castigou-vos com açoites, eu vos castigarei com escorpiões. 
Vieram Jeroboão e todo o povo ter com Roboão no terceiro dia, como o rei tinha ordenado, dizendo: Vinde ter comigo ao terceiro dia. 
O rei respondeu-lhes asperamente. O rei Roboão desaprovou o conselho dos homens idosos, 
e falou-lhes segundo o conselho dos moços: Meu pai fez pesado o vosso jugo, mas eu lhes acrescentarei mais; meu pai castigou-vos com açoites, eu, porém, vos castigarei com escorpiões. 
Assim o rei não deu ouvidos ao povo; porque era da vontade de Deus, para que Jeová estabelecesse a sua palavra, que por meio de Aías silonita falou a Jeroboão, filho de Nebate. 
Vendo todo o Israel que o rei não lhes dava ouvidos, respondeu o povo ao rei: Que parte temos com Davi? nem temos herança no filho de Jessé: cada um às suas tendas, ó Israel! agora cuida da tua casa, Davi! Assim se foi todo o Israel para as suas tendas. 
Mas quanto aos filhos de Israel que habitavam nas cidades de Judá, sobre eles reinou Roboão. 
O rei Roboão enviou a Hadorão, que era superintendente da gente de trabalhos forçados; e os filhos de Israel o apedrejaram, de modo que morreu. O rei Roboão apressadamente montou no seu carro, e fugiu para Jerusalém. 
Assim se rebelou Israel contra a casa de Davi até o dia de hoje. 

And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king. 
And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt. 
And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said, 
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants. 
And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away. 
Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people? 
And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever. 
But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him. 
And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us? 
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body; 
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes. 
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day. 
And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men, 
But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes. 
So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. 
And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents. 
But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah. 
Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem. 
So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day. 

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