RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

34 But I will not take the whole malchut out of his hand:
but I will make him sar all the days of his chayim for
Dawid My eved's sake, whom I chose, because he kept My
mitzvoth and My chukim:
35 But I will take the malchut out of his son's hand, and
will give it to you, even ten tribes. 904
36 And to his son 905 will I give one tribe, that Dawid My
eved may have a light always before Me in
Yahrushalayim, the city which I have chosen for Me to
put My Name there.
37 And I will take you, and you shall reign according to
all that your being desires, and you shall be melech over
Yisrael.
38 And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command
you, and will have your halacha in My halachot, and do
what is right in My sight, to keep My chukim and My
mitzvoth, as Dawid My eved did; that I will be with you,
and build you a sure bayit, as I built for Dawid, and will
give Yisrael to you. 906
39 And I will for this afflict the zera of Dawid, but not
le-olam-va-ed. 907
40 Shlomo sought therefore to kill Yahravam. And
Yahravam arose, and fled into Mitzrayim, to Shishak
melech of Mitzrayim, and was in Mitzrayim until the
death of Shlomo.
41 And the rest of the acts of Shlomo, and all that he did,
and his chochmah, are they not written in the Scroll of the
Acts of Shlomo? 908
42 And the time that Shlomo reigned in Yahrushalayim
over kol Yisrael 909 was forty years. 910
43 And Shlomo slept with his ahvot, and was buried in
the city of Dawid his abba: and Rechavam his son reigned
in his place.
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And Rechavam went to Shechem: for kol Yisrael had
come to Shechem to make him melech.
2 And it came to pass, when Yahravam the son of Nevat,
who was yet in Mitzrayim, heard of it, because he had
fled from the presence of melech Shlomo, and Yahravam
dwelt in Mitzrayim,
3 That they sent and called him. And Yahravam and all
the congregation of Yisrael came, and spoke to
Rechavam, saying,
4 Your abba made our yoke hard: now therefore make the
compulsory labor of your abba, and his heavy yoke that
he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.
5 And he said to them, Depart for three days, then come
back to me. And the people departed.
6 And melech Rechavam consulted with the zechanim
that stood before Shlomo his abba while he still lived, and
said, How do you advise that I may answer this people?
7 And they spoke to him, saying, If you will be an eved to
this people this day, and will serve them, and answer
them, and speak tov words to them, then they will be your
avadim le-olam-va-ed.
8 But he forsook the counsel of the zechanim, which they
had given him, and consulted with the young men with
whom he had grown up, and who stood before him:
9 And he said to them, What counsel do you give that we
may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying,
Make the yoke which your abba did put upon us lighter?
10 And the young men that had grown up with him spoke
to him, saying, This shall you say to this people that
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spoke to you, saying, Your abba made our yoke heavy,
but you make it lighter on us; this shall you say to them,
My little finger shall be thicker than my abba's loins.
11 And now my abba did lay on you a heavy yoke, yet I
will add to your yoke: my abba has chastised you with
whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 911
12 So Yahravam and all the people came to Rechavam
the third day, as the melech had appointed, saying, Come
back to me again on the third day,
13 And the melech answered the people roughly, and
forsook the zechanim’s counsel that they gave him;
14 And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men,
saying, My abba made your yoke heavy, and I will add to
your yoke: my abba also chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise you with scorpions.
15 So the melech did not listen to the people, for the
cause was from vuvh, that He might perform His saying,
which vuvh spoke by Achiyah the Shilonite to Yahravam
the son of Nevat. 912
16 So when kol Yisrael saw that the melech listened not
to them, the people answered the melech, saying, What
portion have we in Beit Dawid? Neither have we an
inheritance in the son of Yishai: to your tents, O Yisrael:
now see to your own bayit, Dawid. So Yisrael departed to
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their tents.
17 But as for the children of Yisrael who dwelt in the
cities of Yahudah, Rechavam reigned over them. 915
18 Then melech Rechavam sent Adoram, who was over
the compulsory labor; and kol Yisrael 916 stoned him
with stones, that he died. 917 Therefore melech Rechavam
hurried to get into his mirkavah, to flee to Yahrushalayim.
19 So Yisrael rebelled against Beit Dawid to this day. 918
20 And it came to pass, when kol Yisrael heard that
Yahravam had returned, that they sent and called him to
the congregation, and made him melech over kol Yisrael:
there was none that followed Beit Dawid, except the tribe
of Yahudah only.
21 And when Rechavam was come to Yahrushalayim, he
assembled all of Beit Yahudah, with the tribe of
Benyamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men,
who were warriors, to fight against Beit Yisrael, to return
the malchut again to Rechavam the son of Shlomo. 919
22 But the word of Elohim came to Shemayah the man of
Elohim, saying,
23 Speak to Rechavam, the son of Shlomo, melech of
Yahudah, and to all of Beit Yahudah and Benyamin, and
to the rest of the people, saying,
24 This says vuvh, You shall not go up, nor fight against
your brothers the children of Yisrael: return every man to
his bayit; for this thing 920 is from Me. 921 They heard
and obeyed the word of vuvh, and returned, according to
the word of vuvh.
25 Then Yahravam rebuilt Shechem in Mount Efrayim,
and dwelt there; and went out from there, and rebuilt
Penu-El.
26 And Yahravam said in his lev, Now shall the malchut
return to Beit Dawid:
27 If this people goes up to do sacrifice in the Bayit of
vuvh at Yahrushalayim, then shall the lev of this people
return again to their master, even to Rechavam melech of
Yahudah, and they shall kill me, and go again to
Rechavam melech of Yahudah.
28 So the melech took counsel, and made two calves of