2 Chronicles 10:3 CPDV

¹  Now Rehoboam set out for Shechem. For in that place all of Israel had convened, so that they might appoint him as king.

²  But when Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt, (indeed he had fled to that place from Solomon) had heard it, he promptly returned.

³  And they summoned him, and he arrived with all of Israel. And they spoke to Rehoboam, saying:

⁴  'Your father pressed upon us a very difficult yoke. You should govern us more lightly than your father, who imposed on us a heavy servitude, and so lift up some of the burden, so that we may serve you.'

⁵  But he said, 'Return to me after three days.' And when the people had gone away,