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The Fall of the Ten Tribes of Israel from the House of David 1–14. The behavior of the reigning Rehoboam strengthens the long-standing discontent of the ten tribes of Israel towards the house of David. 15–19. The actual fall of the 10 tribes from the house of David and the failure of Rehoboam’s attempt to return them. 2 Chronicles 10:1. And Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all the Israelites had come to Shechem to make him king. 2 Chronicles 10:2. When Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, heard about this—he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon—Jeroboam returned from Egypt. 2 Chronicles 10:3. And they sent and called him; And Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam thus: 2 Chronicles 10:4. your father has placed a heavy yoke on us; but lighten your father’s cruel work and the heavy yoke that he placed on us, and we will serve you. 2 Chronicles 10:5. And Rehoboam said to them: In three days come again to me. And the people dispersed. 2 Chronicles 10:6. And King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who stood before Solomon his father during his lifetime, and said: How do you advise us to answer this people? 2 Chronicles 10:7. They said to him: If you [now] will be kind to this people and please them and speak kindly to them, then they will be your slaves forever. 2 Chronicles 10:8. But he left the advice of the elders, which they gave him, and began to consult with the young people who grew up with him, standing before him; 2 Chronicles 10:9. and he said to them, “What do you advise me to answer to this people, who said to me this way: Lighten the yoke that your father put on us?” 2 Chronicles 10:10. And the young men who grew up with him spoke to him and said, “So say to the people who said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but you lighten us,’ so say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins. 2 Chronicles 10:11. My father has placed a heavy yoke on you, but I will increase your yoke; my father punished you with whips, and I [will beat you] with scorpions. 2 Chronicles 10:12. And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king commanded, saying, Come to me again in three days. 2 Chronicles 10:13. Then the king answered them sternly, for King Rehoboam left the council of elders, and spoke to them on the advice of the young people like this: 2 Chronicles 10:14. my father has placed a heavy yoke on you, and I will increase it; my father punished you with whips, and I [will beat you] with scorpions. 2 Chronicles 10:15. And the king did not listen to the people, because it was so ordained by God, that He might fulfill His word to the Lord, which He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilohite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 2 Chronicles 10:16. When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying: What part have we in David? We have no share in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel! Now know your home, David. And all Israel went to their tents. 2 Chronicles 10:17. Only Rehoboam remained king over the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah. 2 Chronicles 10:18. And King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the chief of the collection of tribute, and the children of Israel stoned him, and he died. King Rehoboam hastened to get into his chariot to escape to Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 10:19. Thus the Israelites revolted from the house of David to this day. The narrative of 2 Chronicles here is almost literally similar to the story (1 Kings 12:1-19), see The Expository Bible, vol. II, p. 423–425. With the death of Solomon, the indivisible existence of the Jewish kingdom ceased, hitherto united not only by the ruling royal dynasty of the Davidic family, but also by a single sanctuary - the church built by Solomon in Jerusalem. And while the sacred writer of the 3rd and 4th books of Kings sets out the synchronistic history of both Jewish kingdoms on the division of the Jewish kingdom, for the priests. writer of the books of Chronicles, only the kingdom of Judah remained a theocratic community with a single legal church and a legal cult and priesthood under it. The Israeli (northern) kingdom, as deprived of these conditions of normal religious and church life, is, from his point of view, as if it had ceased to exist, at least for the Old Testament Kingdom of God. Hence, almost all the information about the kingdom of Israel contained in the books of Kings is omitted from 2 Chronicles. So, for example, there is no mention at all of the reign of Jeroboam I of Israel, while the narrative about the modern Jewish king Rehoboam (chap. 10–12) contains a whole series of new documentary data in comparison with 1 Kings: about the strengthening of some cities by Rehoboam, about the resettlement of priests and Levites from the kingdom of Israel to Judea; detailed genealogy of the royal family of Rehoboam (chapter 11). Of the subsequent reigns, 2 Chronicles dwells longer on the reigns of Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joash, Hezekiah, and Josiah, when the legal service of Jehovah flourished in the temple of Jerusalem and the cult with its manifestations occupied a leading place in popular Jewish life. You might be interested in: