¹羅波安繼位（王上12:1~5）羅波安到示劍去，因為全體以色列人都去了示劍，要立他作王。

¹Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

²那時，尼八的兒子耶羅波安，因為逃避所羅門王，住在埃及；他一聽見這事，就從埃及回來。

²It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

³他們派人去叫耶羅波安回來；他就和全體以色列人來見羅波安，對他說：

³They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

⁴“你父親使我們所負的軛甚重，現在求你減輕你父親加在我們身上的勞役和重軛，我們就服事你。”

⁴“Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

⁵羅波安對他們說：“三天以後你們再來見我吧！”眾人就離去了。

⁵He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” The people departed.

⁶不採納老年人的意見（王上12:6~7）羅波安王和一些在他父親所羅門在世的時候，侍立在所羅門面前的老人商議，說：“你們有甚麼提議，我好回覆這班民眾呢？”

⁶King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?”

⁷他們對他說：“如果王善待人民，使他們喜悅，對他們說好話，他們就必永遠作你的僕人。”

⁷They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

⁸聽從少年人的計謀（王上12:8~15）王不接受這些老人的意見，卻去和那些同他一起長大，侍立在他面前的年輕人商議，

⁸But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

⁹問他們：“這人民對我說：求你減輕你父親加在我們身上的重軛吧。你們有甚麼提議，我好回覆他們呢？”

⁹He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

¹⁰那些同他一起長大的年輕人對他說：“這人民對王說：‘你父親使我們所負的軛甚重，現在求你減輕些吧。’王要這樣對他們說：‘我的小拇指比我父親的腰還粗呢。

¹⁰The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

¹¹我父親把重軛加在你們身上，我必使你們負更重的軛；我父親用鞭打你們，我卻要用蠍子鞭責打你們。’”

¹¹Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

¹²耶羅波安和全體人民都遵照羅波安王所說“你們第三天再來見我”的話，第三天來見羅波安。

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

¹³羅波安王很嚴厲地回答他們。羅波安王不接受老人的意見，

¹³The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,

¹⁴卻照著年輕人的主意對他們說：“我父親使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我卻要用蠍子鞭責打你們。”

¹⁴and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

¹⁵王不聽從人民的要求，這事原是出於　神，為要實現耶和華藉著示羅人亞希雅對尼八的兒子耶羅波安所說的話。

¹⁵So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

¹⁶以色列人背叛（王上12:16~20）以色列人見王不聽他們的要求，就對王說：“我們和大衛有甚麼關係呢？我們和耶西的兒子並不相干。以色列人哪，各回各家去吧，大衛啊，現在只顧你自己的家吧。”於是全體以色列人都回自己的家去了。

¹⁶When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

¹⁷只有那些住在猶大眾城鎮的以色列人，羅波安仍然作他們的王。

¹⁷But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

¹⁸羅波安王差派了監管苦工的哈多蘭到以色列人那裡去，以色列人就用石頭把他打死了。羅波安王急忙上車，逃回耶路撒冷去了。

¹⁸Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

¹⁹這樣，以色列人背叛了大衛家，直到今日。

¹⁹So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.