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When Hadad in Egypt heard that David slept with his ancestors and Yo'av the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me leave, so that I can return to my own country."

God raised up another adversary against Shlomo, Rezon the son of Elyada, who had fled from his lord Hadad‘ezer king of Tzovah

Here is the reason he rebelled against the king: Shlomo was building the Millo and closing the breach in [the wall of] the City of David his father.

Achiyah took hold of his new cloak that he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.

I will do this because they have abandoned me and worshipped ‘Ashtoret the goddess of the Tzidoni, K'mosh the god of Mo'av and Milkom the god of the people of ‘Amon. They haven't lived according to my ways, so that they could do what was right in my view and obey my regulations and rulings, as did David his father.

However, I will take the kingdom away from his son and give ten tribes of it to you.

To his son I will give one tribe, so that David my servant will always have a light burning before me in Yerushalayim, the city I chose for myself as the place to put my name.

Other activities of Shlomo, all he accomplished and his wisdom are recorded in the Annals of Shlomo.

Then Shlomo slept with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David his father, and Rechav‘am his son became king in his place.

"Your father laid a harsh yoke on us. But if you will lighten the harsh service we had to render your father and ease his heavy yoke that he put on us, we will serve you."

King Rechav‘am consulted the older men who had been in attendance on Shlomo his father during his lifetime and asked, "What advice would you give me as to how to answer these people?"

But he didn't take the advice the older men gave him; instead he consulted the young men he had grown up with, who were now his attendants.

So the king didn't listen to the people; and that was something Adonai brought about, so that he could fulfill his word, which Adonai had spoken through Achiyah from Shiloh to Yarov‘am the son of N'vat.

King Rechav‘am then sent Adoram, who was in charge of forced labor; but all Isra'el stoned him to death. King Rechav‘am managed to mount his chariot and flee to Yerushalayim.

He went up to the altar which he had set up in Beit-El on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had chosen on his own, and instituted a festival for the people of Isra'el; he went up to the altar to burn incense.

And by the word from Adonai he cried out against the altar: "Altar, altar, here is what Adonai says: ‘A son will be born to the house of David; his name will be Yoshiyahu; and on you he will sacrifice the cohanim of the high places who burn incense on you! They will burn human bones on you!'"

When the king heard what the man of God said, how he denounced the altar in Beit-El, Yarov‘am took his hand away from the altar and said, "Seize him!" But his hand, the one he had stretched out against him, shriveled up; so that he could not draw it back to himself.

Now there lived an old prophet in Beit-El; and one of his sons came and told him all the things the man of God had done that day in Beit-El; also they told their father what he had said to the king.

Their father asked them, "Which way did he go?" For his sons had seen what road the man of God from Y'hudah had taken.

He then said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him; and, riding on it,