Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36
Rehoboam goes to Shechem, the same covenant-renewal site as Joshua 24, for his coronation. The northern tribes come with a request: lighten the heavy yoke your father put on us and we will serve you. He takes three days to consult. The older men say: if you serve this people, they will serve you. The young men he grew up with say: tell them you will make it harder.
Rehoboam chooses the young men's counsel. He answers roughly. And Israel goes home, to your tents, O Israel. The ten northern tribes break from the Davidic dynasty.
The text provides two explanations simultaneously: the cause was from the LORD to fulfill the word he had spoken through Ahijah the prophet to Jeroboam. And: the king did not listen to the people. Both are true. God's prophetic word is being fulfilled. Rehoboam's genuine foolishness is the instrument. Thread 4 is the genuine choice: Rehoboam was counseled wisely and counseled foolishly, and he chose the foolish counsel. Thread 3 is the covenant holding: Rehoboam retains Judah and Benjamin, the Davidic line continues. The split is the judgment, not the termination.
Rehoboam's foolishness and the kingdom's division: the cause was from the LORD to perform his word; divine sovereignty and genuine human foolishness are both fully present in the same event and neither cancels the other.
כִּי הָיְתָה סִבָּה מֵעִם יְהוָה (ki hayetah sibbah me-im YHWH): for the cause was from the LORD: sibbah (cause, turning, occasion, from savav, to turn, go around; the divine providential occasion that turned events in this direction); the cause was from the LORD means God's purpose was being accomplished through Rehoboam's foolishness; but the foolishness was genuinely Rehoboam's, he forsook the old men's counsel and listened to young men who had not earned wisdom; both are true simultaneously
threads t3 · t4 · t5 · see 1 Kings 11:29-39 · Proverbs 11:2 · Romans 11:33-36