2 CHRONICLES 10:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
So the king did not hearken to the people; and this turn of events was brought about by God, to fulfill his word, which the LORD had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat — The Chronicler frames Rehoboam's rejection (לֹא־שָׁמַע הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶל־הָעָם) as theologically ordained: God brought about this turn (וַיַּהִי הַסִּבְבָה מֵעִם הָאֱלֹהִים) to fulfill Ahijah's prophecy that Jeroboam would receive the northern kingdom. Divine will, expressed through prophetic word, operated through human folly.
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