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1罗波安往去，因为以色列人都到了示剑，要立他作王。Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
2尼八的儿子先前躲避所罗门王，逃往埃及，住在那里；他听见这事，就从埃及回来。When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
3以色列人打发人去请他，他就和以色列众人来见罗波安，对他说：So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
4“你父亲使我们负做苦工，现在求你使我们做的苦工负的重轭轻松些，我们就事奉你。”“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
5罗波安对他们说：“第三日再来见我吧！”民就去了。Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
6罗波安之父所罗门在世的日子，有侍立在他面前的老年人，罗波安王和他们商议，说：“你们给我出个什么主意，我好回复这民。”Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
7老年人对他说：“王若恩待这民，使他们喜悦，用好话回复他们，他们就永远作王的仆人。”They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
8王却不用老年人给他出的主意，就和那些与他一同长大、在他面前侍立的少年人商议，But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
9说：“这民对我说：‘你父亲使我们负重轭，求你使我们轻松些’；你们给我出个什么主意，我好回复他们。”He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
10那同他长大的少年人说：“这民对王说：‘你父亲使我们负重轭，求你使我们轻松些’；王要对他们如此说：“我的比我父亲的腰还粗；The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
11我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭；我父亲用鞭子责打你们，我要用责打你们。’”Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”
12耶罗波安和众百姓遵着罗波安王所说“你们第三日再来见我”的那话，第三日他们果然来了。After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
13罗波安王用严厉的话回复他们，不用老年人所出的主意，And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
14照着少年人所出的主意对他们说：“我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭；我父亲用鞭子责打你们，我要用蝎子鞭责打你们。”and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
15王不肯依从百姓；这事乃出于 神，为要应验耶和华借示罗人亚希雅对尼八儿子耶罗波安所说的话。So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
16以色列众民见王不依从他们，就对王说：我们与大卫有什么呢？与耶西的儿子并没有关涉！以色列人哪，各回各家去吧！大卫家啊，自己顾自己吧！于是，以色列众人都回自己家里去了。When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
17惟独住在犹大城邑的以色列人，罗波安仍作他们的王。but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
18罗波安王差遣掌管服苦之人的哈多兰往以色列人那里去，以色列人就用石头打死他。罗波安王急忙上车，逃回耶路撒冷去了。Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
19这样，以色列人背叛大卫家，直到今日。So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.