CANDIDATE

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• 2 Samuel 15:1

  After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.

• 2 Samuel 15:2

  Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 15:3

  Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

• 2 Samuel 15:4

  Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”

• 2 Samuel 15:5

  It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

• 2 Samuel 15:6

  Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 10:3

  They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 10:4

  “Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:5

  He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.

• 2 Chronicles 10:6

  King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

• 2 Chronicles 10:7

  They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:8

  But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

• 2 Chronicles 10:9

  He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

• 2 Chronicles 10:10

  The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

• 2 Chronicles 10:11

  Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

• 2 Chronicles 10:12

  So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:13

  The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men,

• 2 Chronicles 10:14

  and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:15

  So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

• 2 Chronicles 10:16

  When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.