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15 So the king did not heed the people, for it was [a]brought about of God, that the Lord might perform His word which He spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.(A)

16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to and heed them, they answered [him], What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to your tents, O Israel! Now, David [tribe of Judah], see to your own house [under your tyrant King Rehoboam]! So all Israel went to their homes.

17 But as for the Israelites who dwelt in Judah’s cities, Rehoboam ruled over them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 10:15 God permitted the revolt of the northern tribes, intending it as a punishment of the house of David for Solomon’s apostasy (Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown, A Commentary).

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