Graphic Bible · Scene 8 of 19
1 Kings 12:13-15
The harsh answer
The Kingdom Divides · 1 Kings 12
Story guide: Rehoboam answers the gathered people with the young men's harsh counsel, turning away from the elders.
Open this scene in the reader →13And the king answered the people harshly, and he abandoned the counsel of the elders who had advised him.
14Following the advice of the young men, he said to them, “My father made your yoke heavy, and I will make your yoke even heavier. My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.”
15So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from Yahweh, so that he might fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
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