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14 Instead, he spoke to them as the young men had advised: “My father made your yoke heavy. I will add to it. My father punished you with whips. I will punish you with scorpions.”

15 The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events was from God, so that the Lord would keep his word, as he had spoken it to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah from Shiloh.

16 When all Israel saw[a] that the king did not listen to them, they responded to the king:

What share do we have in David?

No inheritance with the son of Jesse!

To your tents, Israel!

Now, look after your own house, David!

So all Israel went to their tents.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 10:16 Many Hebrew manuscripts omit saw, but this reading has good support in the ancient versions.
  2. 2 Chronicles 10:16 Go to their tents is a common idiom for go home. It does not imply that the Israelites all lived in tents.