1 Kings 12:14-16

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¹⁴and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”

¹⁵The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events came from the Lord^(A) to carry out his word, which the Lord had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.^(B) ¹⁶When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him:

What portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.^(C)
Israel, return to your tents;
David, now look after your own house!^(D)

So Israel went to their tents,

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