I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 360
The History of the People of Israel
3 jerabam had settled in Mitzer,-s0 they sent an invitation to Jerabam from all the Parliament of Israel. They then addressed Rekhabam, IO II saying, ‘ Your father was heavy upon us,
but you can now lighten the load of your father from your subjects, and lift off from us the load that he laid upon us, and we will be your subjects. Go away for three days. Then return to me. So the people went. King Rekhabam then consulted
the advisers who had stood in the presence of his father Solomon dur- What answer do you advise me to return to these people?’ And they replied to him, saying,
‘If you will be a subject of these people to-day, and answer and speak fair words to them, then they will be your subjects at all times} However he rejected the advice of
the old men, which they had advised, and consulted the lads who had grown up with him, who stood before him, What answer do you advise that I shall return to these people who have addressed me, saying, ‘ Lift from off us what your father laid on' ?’ And the lads who had grown up
Reply thus to those people, who addressed you saying, ‘ Your father loaded us, but you take it olf.’ Say this to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins! So I will put `a heavy yoke on you,———·for I will add to the yoke of my father. He tlogged you with whips !~··-but I will flog you with scorpionsl ’ .c. 975.) Glilye Qerliameui at dsrurl dizlmlt mth elect firrulmm lling. 12 But jerabam himself came, and all third day, as the king had appointed, Return to me on the and the king answered the people harshly, and refused the counsels .of the old men which they advised, but addressed them as the My father put a load on you! but I will add another to it! My father {logged you with whips, but I will Bog you with scorpionsf Thus the king did not listen to the
people, for the Evan-Livmo caused the people to revolt for the purpose of establishing the word that the Akhiah, the Shilonite, to ]erabam— ben-Nebat. Then all Israel saw that the king house, David l And Israel went to its tents.
Rekhabam reigned over them. ily to jerusalem. of judah alone. the son of Solomon. 'EVER-L1v1NG spoke by the means of would not listen to them, conse- quently the people returned the king What is our share in David? For we have no inheritance from the Son of jessail To your tents, Israel ! Now look to your own Some- Israelites, however, con-
tinued to reside in judah and King Rekhabam, however, sent
Adoram who was over the conscrip~ tion, but the Parliament of Israel rose against him and stoned him to death, so King Rekhabam made haste to mount his carriage and to Thus Israel revolted from the
House of David until this day, for when all Israel heard that ]era· bam had returned, they sent and invited him to the Parliament, and they elected him king over all Israel; there were none left afterwards to
the House of David except the tribe When Rekhabam arrived at ]eru· :6 18 2o 2r salem, he convoked the forces of the House of judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand soldiers, trained for war} to tight with the House of Israel, to regain the kingship to Rekhabam I V. 21. The army that was thus raised out
of two Tribes shows how the population had increased under the security of David and Solomorfs reigns, and the commercial pros~ perity following the creation of a great Empire. Solomon had noted it and wrote ‘When wealth increases the consumers We see it in Britain and America. the Parliament with jerabam on the l --F. F. soo
