Rehoboam

rehoboam

• General Notes
  • When Solomon died, his son Rehoboam ascended to the throne. Jeroboam returned to Israel and went to meet Rehoboam as the head of the workers, who obviously retained loyalty to him, to plead for better conditions.
    
    "Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you."
    
    Rehoboam answered, "Go away for three days and then come back to me." So the people went away. (1 Kings 12:4-5)
    Rehoboam returned with the news that taxes would be increased! They revolted, making Jeroboam their king, leaving Rehoboam only the tribes of Judah and its ancilillary Benjamin.
    
    Jeroboam rebuilt and fortified Shechem as the capital of his kingdom. As a means to perpetuate the division between the two kingdoms, he had two golden calves placed at Dan and Bethel, which lay at either end of Israel, and then told his people not to worship at Jerusalem anymore but to bring their offerings to the shrines he had built.
    
    One day, while he was offering incense at Bethel, a prophet from Judah appeared before him with a warning message from God, saying that the altar would split.
    
    When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, "Seize him!" But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up, so that he could not pull it back. Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out according to the sign given by the man of God by the word of the LORD . (1 Kings 13:4-5)
    
    During his reign the kingdom was divided into Judah and Israel.

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