1 Kings 12

The people go to Shechem to make Rehoboam king, and send for Jeroboam out of Egypt, who with the heads of the tribes, requests relief from the heavy burdens laid on them by Solomon, 1 Kings 12:1-4 . He requires three days to consider their petition, 1 Kings 12:5 . He rejects the counsel of the elders, who served his father, and follows that of young men, and returns the people a provoking answer, 1 Kings 12:6-15 . The people therefore renounce the family of David, stone to death Adoram, who came to receive their tribute, and make Jeroboam king; none cleaving to Rehoboam but the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, 1 Kings 12:16-20 . Rehoboam comes to Jerusalem, and assembles all the fighting men of Judah and Benjamin, and finds the number to be one hundred and eighty thousand; and with these he purposes to reduce the men of Israel to his allegiance, but is forbidden by the Prophet Shemaiah, 1 Kings 12:21-24 . Jeroboam builds Shechem in Mount Ephraim and Penuel, 1 Kings 12:25 . And lest the people should be drawn away from their allegiance to him by going up to Jerusalem to worship, he makes two golden calves, and sets them up, one in Dan, the other in Beth-el, and the people worship them, 1 Kings 12:26-30 . He makes priests of the lowest of the people, and establishes the fifteenth day of the eighth month as a feast to his new gods; makes offerings, and burns incense, 1 Kings 12:31-33 .