When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilised the house of Judah and Benjamin #– #one hundred and eighty thousand fit young soldiers #– #to fight against Israel to restore the reign to Rehoboam.
I will give one tribe to his son, so that my servant David will always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city I chose for myself to put my name there.
When all Israel saw , that the king had not listened to them, the people answered the king: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, each to your tent; David, look after your own house now! So all Israel went to their tents.
Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, , who was in charge of the forced labour, but the Israelites stoned him to death. However, King Rehoboam managed to get into his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
‘Son of man, take a single stick and write on it: Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him. Then take another stick and write on it: Belonging to Joseph #– #the stick of Ephraim #– #and all the house of Israel associated with him.