Jeroboam son of Nebat learned of it while he was still in Egypt; for Jeroboam had fled from King Solomon, and had settled in Egypt.aand had settled in Egypt Cf. 2 Chron. 10.2 “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.”
King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. He said, “What answer do you advise [me] to give to this people?”
They answered him, “If you will be a servant to those people today and serve them, and if you respond to them with kind words, they will be your servants always.”
But he ignored the advice that the elders gave him, and took counsel with the young menbthe young men Lit. “the children.” who had grown up with him and were serving him.
And the young men who had grown up with him answered, “Speak thus to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us.’ Say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.
He spoke to them in accordance with the advice of the young men, and said, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I will flog you with scorpions.”
(The king did not listen to the people; for GOD had brought it about in order to fulfill the promise that GOD had made through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.)
When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered the king:“We have no portion in David,No share in Jesse’s son!To your tents, O Israel!Now look to your own House, O David.”So the Israelites returned to their homes.chomes Lit. “tents.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וירא
217
כלישראל
591
כי
30
לאשמע
441
המלך
95
אלהם
76
וישבו
324
העם
115
אתהמלךדברלאמר
973
מהלנו
131
חלק
138
בדוד
16
ולאנחלה
130
בבןישי
374
לאהליך
96
ישראל
541
עתה
475
ראה
206
ביתך
432
דוד
14
וילך
66
ישראל
541
לאהליו
82
I Kings 12:17
Gematria: 1949
ובניישראלהישביםבערייהודהוימלךעליהםרחבעםפ
But Rehoboam continued to reign over the Israelites who lived in the towns of Judah.
King Rehoboam sent Adoram,dAdoram Elsewhere called Adoniram; cf. 2 Sam. 20.24 and note. who was in charge of the forced labor, but all Israel pelted him to death with stones. Thereupon King Rehoboam hurriedly mounted his chariot and fled to Jerusalem.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישלח
354
המלך
95
רחבעם
320
אתאדרם
646
אשר
501
עלהמס
205
וירגמו
265
כלישראל
591
בו
8
אבן
53
וימת
456
והמלך
101
רחבעם
320
התאמץ
536
לעלות
536
במרכבה
269
לנוס
146
ירושלם
586
I Kings 12:19
Gematria: 1653
ויפשעוישראלבביתדודעדהיוםהזהס
Thus Israel revolted against the House of David, as is still the case.
When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent messengers and summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the House of David.
On his return to Jerusalem, Rehoboam mustered all the House of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 of the best warriors, to fight against the House of Israel, in order to restore the kingship to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבאו
25
ויבא
19
רחבעם
320
ירושלם
586
ויקהל
151
אתכלבית
863
יהודה
30
ואתשבט
718
בנימן
152
מאה
46
ושמנים
446
אלף
111
בחור
216
עשה
375
מלחמה
123
להלחם
113
עםבית
522
ישראל
541
להשיב
347
אתהמלוכה
507
לרחבעם
350
בןשלמהפ
507
I Kings 12:22
Gematria: 1457
ויהידברהאלהיםאלשמעיהאישהאלהיםלאמר
But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the agent of God:
Thus said GOD: You shall not set out to make war on your kindred the Israelites. Return to your homes, for this thing has been brought about by Me.” They heeded the word of GOD and turned back, in accordance with the word of GOD.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כה
25
אמר
241
יהוה
26
לאתעלו
537
ולאתלחמון
571
עםאחיכם
189
בניישראל
603
שובו
314
איש
311
לביתו
448
כי
30
מאתי
451
נהיה
70
הדבר
211
הזה
17
וישמעו
432
אתדבר
607
יהוה
26
וישבו
324
ללכת
480
כדבר
226
יהוהס
86
I Kings 12:25
Gematria: 3137
ויבןירבעםאתשכםבהראפריםוישבבהויצאמשםויבןאתפנואל
Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and resided there; he moved out from there and fortified Penuel.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבן
68
ירבעם
322
אתשכם
761
בהר
207
אפרים
331
וישב
318
בה
7
ויצא
107
משם
380
ויבן
68
אתפנואל
568
I Kings 12:26
Gematria: 2398
ויאמרירבעםבלבועתהתשובהממלכהלביתדוד
Jeroboam said to himself, “Now the kingdom may well return to the House of David.
If these people still go up to offer sacrifices at the House of GOD in Jerusalem, the heart of these people will turn back to their master, King Rehoboam of Judah; they will kill me and go back to King Rehoboam of Judah.”
So the king took counsel and made two golden calves. He said to the people,ethe people Heb. “them.” “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויועץ
182
המלך
95
ויעש
386
שני
360
עגלי
113
זהב
14
ויאמר
257
אלהם
76
רבלכם
292
מעלות
546
ירושלם
586
הנה
60
אלהיך
66
ישראל
541
אשר
501
העלוך
131
מארץ
331
מצרים
380
I Kings 12:29
Gematria: 2201
וישםאתהאחדבביתאלואתהאחדנתןבדן
He set up one in Bethel and placed the other in Dan.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישם
356
אתהאחד
419
בביתאל
445
ואתהאחד
425
נתן
500
בדן
56
I Kings 12:30
Gematria: 1210
ויהיהדברהזהלחטאתוילכוהעםלפניהאחדעדדן
That proved to be a cause of guilt, for the people went to worship [the calf at Bethel and] the one at Dan.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
הדבר
211
הזה
17
לחטאת
448
וילכו
72
העם
115
לפני
170
האחד
18
עדדן
128
I Kings 12:31
Gematria: 3610
ויעשאתביתבמותויעשכהניםמקצותהעםאשרלאהיומבנילוי
He also made cult places and appointed priests from the ranks of the people who were not of Levite descent.
He stationed at Bethel the priests of the shrines that he had appointed to sacrifice to the calves that he had made. And Jeroboam established a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month; in imitation of the festival in Judah, he established one at Bethel, and he ascended the altar [there].
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month—the month in which he had contrived of his own mind to establish a festival for the Israelites—Jeroboam ascended the altar that he had made in Bethel.As he ascended the altar to present an offering,