RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

DIVRE HAYAMIM BET – SECOND CHRONICLES
Yisrael came and spoke to Rechavam, saying,
4 Your abba made our yoke hard: now therefore lighten
the hard service of your abba, and his heavy yoke that
he put upon us, and we will serve you.
5 And he said to them, Return to me after three days.
And the people departed.
6 And melech Rechavam took counsel with the elderly
men that had stood before Shlomo his abba while he yet
lived, saying, What counsel do you give me to return an
answer to this people?
7 And they spoke to him, saying, If you are kind to this
people, and please them, and speak tov words to them,
they will be your avadim le-olam-va-ed.
8 But he forsook the counsel that the elderly men gave
him, and took counsel with the young men that were
brought up with him, that stood before him.
9 And he said to them, What advice do you give me so I
can return an answer to this people, who have spoken to
me, saying, Lighten the yoke that your abba did put
upon us?
10 And the young men that were brought up with him
spoke to him, saying, This shall you answer the people
that spoke to you, saying, Your abba made our yoke
heavy, but you make it light for us; Say my little finger
shall be thicker than my abba’s loins.
11 Now my abba put a heavy yoke upon you, I will
surely add to your yoke: my abba chastised you with
whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12 So Yahravam and all the people came to Rechavam
on the third day, as the melech commanded, saying,
Come again to me on the third day.
13 And the melech answered them harshly; and melech
Rechavam forsook the counsel of the elderly men,
14 And answered them after the advice of the young
men, saying, My abba made your yoke heavy, but I will
add to it: my abba chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
15 So the melech listened not to the people: for the
cause and turn of events was from Elohim, 4286 so that
vuvh might perform His word, which He spoke by the
hand of Achiyah the Shilonite to Yahravam the son of
Nevat. 4287
16 And when kol Yisrael saw that the melech would not
listen to them, the people answered the melech, saying,
What portion have we in Dawid? 4288 And we have no
inheritance in the son of Yishai: every man to your
tents, 4289 O Yisrael: and now, Dawid, see to your own
bayit. 4290 So kol Yisrael went to their tents. 4291
17 But as for the children of Yisrael that dwelt in the
cities of Yahudah, Rechavam reigned over them. 4292
18 Then melech Rechavam sent Hadoram that was over
the compulsory labor; and the children of Yisrael 4293
stoned him with stones, that he died. 4294 But melech
Rechavam rushed to get up to his mirkavah, to flee to
Yahrushalayim.
19 And Yisrael 4295 rebelled against Beit Dawid to this
day. 4296
11 And when Rechavam had come to Yahrushalayim,
he gathered from Beit Yahudah and Benyamin a
hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were
warriors, to fight against Yisrael, that he might bring
back the malchut again to Rechavam.
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2 But the word of vuvh came to Shemayah the man of
Elohim, saying,
3 Speak to Rechavam the son of Shlomo, melech of
Yahudah, and to kol Yisrael in Yahudah and Benyamin,
saying, 4297
4 This says vuvh, You shall not go up, nor fight against
your brothers: return every man to his bayit: for this
matter of the division is from Me. 4298 And they obeyed
the words of vuvh, and returned from going against
Yahravam.
5 And Rechavam dwelt in Yahrushalayim, and built
cities for defense in Yahudah.
6 He built even Beth-Lechem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
7 And Beth-Zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
8 And Gat, and Mareshah, and Zif,
9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
10 And Tzorach, and Ayalon, and Hevron, which are
fortified cities in Yahudah and in Benyamin.
11 And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in
them, and storages of food, and oil and wine.
12 And in every city he put shields and spears, and
made them exceedingly strong, having Yahudah and
Benyamin on his side.
13 And the Kohanim and the Lewiym that were in kol
Yisrael resorted to him out of all their coasts.
14 For the Lewiym left their suburbs and their
possession, and came to Yahudah and Yahrushalayim:
4299 for Yahravam and his sons had ordered them to
cease from executing the kohen’s office to vuvh:
15 And he ordained for himself priests for the high
places, and for the goats, and for the calves that he had
made.
16 And after them out of all the tribes of Yisrael such as
set their levim to seek vuvh Elohim of Yisrael came to
Yahrushalayim, to sacrifice to vuvh Elohim of their
ahvot. 4300
17 So they strengthened the malchut of Yahudah, and
made Rechavam the son of Shlomo strong for three
years: for three years they had their halacha in the way
of Dawid and Shlomo.
18 And Rechavam took Mahalath the daughter of
Yerimoth the son of Dawid to be his wife, and Abihayil
the daughter of Eliav the son of Yishai;
19 Who bore him children; Yeush, and Shamaryah, and
Zaham.
20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of
Avshalom; who bore him Aviyah, and Attai, and Ziza,
and Shelomith.
21 And Rechavam loved Maachah the daughter of
Avshalom above all his wives and his concubines: for
he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines; and begat
twenty-eight sons, and sixty daughters.
22 And Rechavam made Aviyah the son of Maachah the
head, to be ruler among his brothers: for he thought
about making him melech.
23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed from among all
his children throughout all the countries of Yahudah and
Benyamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them
food in abundance. And he sought many wives for
them. 4301
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And it came to pass, when Rechavam had