1 Kings 12:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:

⁴ Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now therefore do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

⁵ And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again. And when the people was gone,