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43 Solomon slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam succeeded him.(A)

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But he disregarded the advice that the older men gave him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him.(A)

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28 So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people,[a] “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12.28 Gk: Heb to them

An undisciplined king ruins his people,
    but a city becomes fit to live in through the understanding of its rulers.(A)

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