2 Chronicles 10

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled, to make him king.	1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to proclaim him king.
2 And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt, (for he was fled thither from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he returned.	2 When Jeroboam, son of Nebat, heard of this in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon, he returned from Egypt.
3 And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:	3 Jeroboam was summoned to the assembly, and he and all Israel said to Rehoboam:
4 Thy father oppressed us with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.	4 "Your father laid a heavy yoke upon us. If you now lighten the harsh service and the heavy yoke that your father imposed on us, we will serve you."
5 And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,	5 "In three days," he answered them, "come back to me." When the people had departed,
6 He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?	6 King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had been in the service of his father during Solomon's lifetime, asking, "What answer do you advise me to give this people?"
7 And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.	7 They replied, "If you will deal kindly with this people and give in to them, acceding to their request, they will be your servants forever."
8 But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, end began to treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his train.	8 But he ignored the advice the elders had given him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were in his service.
9 And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father laid upon us?	9 He said to them, "What answer do you advise me to give this people, who have asked me to lighten the yoke my father imposed on them?"
10 But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.	10 The young men who had grown up with him replied: "This is the answer you should give to this people who have said to you, 'Your father laid a heavy yoke upon us, but do you lighten our yoke'; this you should say to them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's body.
11 My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more weight to it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.	11 Whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will make it heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!'"
12 So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as he commanded them.	12 On the third day, Jeroboam and all the people came back to King Rehoboam as he had instructed them to do.
13 And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the ancients.	13 Ignoring the advice the elders had given him, the king gave them a harsh answer,
14 And he spoke according to the advice of the young men : My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.	14 speaking to them according to the advice of the young men: "My father laid a heavy yoke on you, but I will make it heavier. My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions."
15 And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the will of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.	15 The king would not listen to the people, for this turn of events was divinely ordained to fulfill the prophecy the LORD had uttered to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, through Ahijah the Shilonite.
16 And all the people upon the king's speaking roughly, said thus unto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai. Return to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David, feed thy own house. And Israel went away to their dwellings.	16 When all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king. "What share have we in David? We have no heritage in the son of Jesse. Everyone to your tents, O Israel! Now look to your own house, David!" So all Israel went off to their tents.
17 But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda.	17 Rehoboam, therefore, reigned over only those Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah.
18 And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes, and the children of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made haste to gee up into his chariot, and fled into Jerusalem.	18 King Rehoboam then sent out Hadoram, who was superintendent of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. Rehoboam himself managed to mount his chariot and flee to Jerusalem.
19 And Israel revolted from the house of David unto this day.	19 Thus Israel has been in rebellion against David's house to this day.