¹² So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”

⁵ He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.

¹² So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, ^(A)“Come to me again the third day.” ¹³ And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him, ¹⁴ he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, ^(B)“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 scorpions.” ¹⁵ So the king did not listen to the people, for ^(C)it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which ^(D)the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.