And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam in the third day, as he had commanded to them.
my father put upon you a grievous yoke, and I shall lay to you a greater burden; my father beat you with scourges, but I shall beat you with scorpions, that is, hard-knotted ropes.
And the king answered hard things, after that he had forsaken the counsel of the elder men,
And he said, After three days turn ye again to me. And when the people was gone [away],