1 Kings 12 — Rahlfs Septuagint

καὶ πορεύεται βασιλεὺς Ροβοαμ εἰς Σικιμα ὅτι εἰς Σικιμα ἤρχοντο πᾶς Ισραηλ βασιλεῦσαι αὐτόν

And King Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all Israel were coming to Shechem to make him king.

καὶ ἐλάλησεν ὁ λαὸς πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Ροβοαμ λέγοντες

And the people spoke to King Rehoboam, saying,

Your father made our yoke heavy, and now you lighten from the hard service of your father and from his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you

5

καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς ἀπέλθετε ἕως ἡμερῶν τριῶν καὶ ἀναστρέψατε πρός με καὶ ἀπῆλθον

And he said to them, Go away until three days, and return to me. And they went away.

6

And the king instructed the elders who had been standing before Solomon his father while he was still alive, saying, How do you counsel, and I shall answer this people a word?

7

And they spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this people today and will serve them and will speak to them good words, then they will be your servants all the days.

8

And he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had counseled him, and he took counsel with the young men who had been brought up with him, those standing before his face.

9

And he said to them, What do you counsel that we should answer to this people, to those who spoke to me, saying, Lighten the yoke that your father put on us?

10

And the young men who had been brought up with him, those standing before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus you shall speak to this people, who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and now you, lighten from us; thus you shall speak to them, My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.

11

And now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, and I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.

12

And all Israel came to King Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken to them, saying, Return to me on the third day.

13

καὶ ἀπεκρίθη ὁ βασιλεὺς πρὸς τὸν λαὸν σκληρά καὶ ἐγκατέλιπεν Ροβοαμ τὴν βουλὴν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων ἃ συνεβουλεύσαντο αὐτῷ

And the king answered the people harshly, and Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the elders which they had advised him

14

And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, and I will discipline you with scorpions.

15

And the king did not listen to the people, because it was a turning from the Lord, in order that he might establish his word which he spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat.

16

And all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, and the people answered the king, saying, What share do we have in David, and there is no inheritance for us in the son of Jesse; to your tents, Israel; now, feed your house, David. And Israel went away to his tents.

18

And the king sent Adoniram who was over the tribute, and all Israel stoned him with stones, and he died, and King Rehoboam hastened to mount up to flee to Jerusalem.

19

καὶ ἠθέτησεν Ισραηλ εἰς τὸν οἶκον Δαυιδ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης

And Israel has revolted against the house of David until this day.

20

And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned from Egypt, that they sent and called him to the assembly, and they made him king over Israel; and there was none behind the house of David except the tribe of Judah and Benjamin alone.

21

And Rehoboam entered into Jerusalem and assembled the congregation of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred and twenty thousand young men making war, to wage war against the house of Israel, to turn back the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon

22

καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος κυρίου πρὸς Σαμαιαν ἄνθρωπον τοῦ θεοῦ λέγων

And the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying

23

Speak to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the rest of the people, saying

24

Thus says the Lord: You shall not go up, and you shall not wage war with your brothers, the sons of Israel. Let each return to his house, because this matter has come from me. And they heard the word of the Lord and ceased from going according to the word of the Lord.

25

And Jeroboam built Shechem, the one in the hill country of Ephraim, and he dwelt in it, and he went out from there and built Penuel

26

καὶ εἶπεν Ιεροβοαμ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἰδοὺ νῦν ἐπιστρέψει ἡ βασιλεία εἰς οἶκον Δαυιδ

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Behold, now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

27

If this people should go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of the people will turn back to the Lord and their lord to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me

28

And the king took counsel and went and made two golden calves and said to the people, It is enough for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold, your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

29

καὶ ἔθετο τὴν μίαν ἐν Βαιθηλ καὶ τὴν μίαν ἔδωκεν ἐν Δαν

And he put the one in Bethel, and the other he gave in Dan.

30

καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ λόγος οὗτος εἰς ἁμαρτίαν καὶ ἐπορεύετο ὁ λαὸς πρὸ προσώπου τῆς μιᾶς ἕως Δαν

And this matter became a sin, and the people went before the one as far as Dan

31

And he made houses on the high places, and he made priests from among the people, some part, who were not of the sons of Levi.

32

And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in the land of Judah, and he went up onto the altar that he had made in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves that he had made, and he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made

33

And he went up onto the altar which he had made on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the feast which he had devised from his own heart, and he made a feast for the sons of Israel, and he went up onto the altar to burn incense