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English Standard Version

1 Kings 12:12

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, "Come to me again the third day."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Counsel;   Government;   Jeroboam;   Petition;   Rashness;   Rehoboam;   Revolt;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jeroboam;   Young Men;   Young People;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jeroboam;   Rehoboam;   Shechem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jeroboam;   Jerusalem;   Rehoboam;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Counselor;   Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Wages;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Israel, Kingdom of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Counselor;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Rehoboam,;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Rehoboam ;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;   Jeroboam;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Revolt;   Kingdom of Israel;   Kingdom of Judah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Kings, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered: “Return to me on the third day.”
Hebrew Names Version
So Yarov`am and all the people came to Rechav`am the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
King James Version
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
New Century Version
Rehoboam had told the people, "Come back to me in three days." So after three days Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam.
New English Translation
Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, "Return to me on the third day."
Amplified Bible
Jeroboam and all the people came back to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had instructed, saying, "Return to me on the third day."
New American Standard Bible
Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had directed, saying, "Return to me on the third day."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ieroboam & all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me againe ye thirde day.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, "Return to me on the third day."
Contemporary English Version
Three days later, Jeroboam and the others came back.
Complete Jewish Bible
So Yarov‘am and all the people came to Rechav‘am the third day, as the king had requested by saying, "Come to me again the third day";
Darby Translation
And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed saying, Come again to me on the third day.
Easy-to-Read Version
Three days later, Jeroboam and all the people came back as Rehoboam had said.
George Lamsa Translation
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had commanded them, saying, Come to me again the third day.
Good News Translation
Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to King Rehoboam, as he had instructed them.
Lexham English Bible
Jeroboam and all of the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken: "Return to me on the third day."
Literal Translation
And they came, Jeroboam and all the people, to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, Come back to me on the third day.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So vpon the thyrde daye came Ieroboam with all the people vnto Roboam, as ye kynge had appoynted and saide, come to me agayne on the thyrde daye.
American Standard Version
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
Bible in Basic English
So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Ieroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the thirde day, as the king had appoynted, saying, Come to me againe the thirde day.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying: 'Come to me again the third day.'
King James Version (1611)
So Ieroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me againe the third day.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all Israel came to king Roboam on the third day, as the king spoke to them, saying, Return to me on the third day.
English Revised Version
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
Berean Standard Bible
After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, "Come back to me on the third day."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Jeroboam, and al the puple, cam to Roboam, in the thridde dai, as the kyng spak, seiynge, Turne ye ayen to me in the thridde dai.
Young's Literal Translation
And they come -- Jeroboam and all the people -- unto Rehoboam, on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, `Come back unto me on the third day.'
Update Bible Version
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
World English Bible
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
New King James Version
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had directed, saying, "Come back to me the third day."
New Living Translation
Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to hear Rehoboam's decision, just as the king had ordered.
New Life Bible
Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had told them, saying, "Return to me on the third day."
New Revised Standard
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had said, "Come to me again the third day."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Jeroboam and all the people came in unto Rehoboam, on the third day, - as the king had bidden, saying - Come again unto me, on the third day.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.
Revised Standard Version
So Jerobo'am and all the people came to Rehobo'am the third day, as the king said, "Come to me again the third day."
THE MESSAGE
Three days later Jeroboam and the people showed up, just as Rehoboam had directed when he said, "Give me three days to think it over, then come back." The king's answer was harsh and rude. He spurned the counsel of the elders and went with the advice of the younger set, "If you think life under my father was hard, you haven't seen the half of it. My father thrashed you with whips; I'll beat you bloody with chains!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, "Return to me on the third day."

Contextual Overview

1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. 3 And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam, 4 "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you." 5 He said to them, "Go away for three days, then come again to me." So the people went away. 6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?" 7 And they said to him, "If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever." 8 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. 9 And he said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us'?" 10 And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,' thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's thighs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Come to me again: 1 Kings 12:5, 2 Chronicles 10:12-14

Reciprocal: Luke 2:46 - after

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord .
Genesis 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 20:11
Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, ‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'
Genesis 26:7
When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.
1 Samuel 27:1
Then David said in his heart, "Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand."
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Matthew 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,.... Jeroboam came to him at the head of the people, being the head of the faction, and designed for their king:

as the king had appointed, saying, come to me again the third day; see

1 Kings 12:5.


 
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