2 Chronicles 10
1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all the Israelites had gone to Shechem to make him king.
Profectus est autem Roboam in Sichem: illuc enim cunctus Israel convenerat ut constituerent eum regem.
2 Jeroboam, son of Nebat, was still in Egypt when he heard about this. (He had run away to Egypt to escape from King Solomon and was living there.)
Quod cum audisset Ieroboam filius Nabat, qui erat in Ægypto (fugerat quippe illuc ante Salomonem) statim reversus est.
3 The Israelite leaders sent for him. Jereboam and all the Israelites went to talk with Rehoboam.
Vocaveruntque eum, et venit cum universo Israel, et locuti sunt ad Roboam, dicentes:
4 “Your father placed a heavy burden on us,” they told him. “But now if you lighten the load your father imposed and the heavy demands he laid on us, we will serve you.”
Pater tuus durissimo iugo nos pressit, tu leviora impera patre tuo, qui nobis imposuit gravem servitutem, et paululum de onere subleva, ut serviamus tibi.
5 Rehoboam answered, “Come back in three days time.” So the people left.
Qui ait: Post tres dies revertimini ad me. Cumque abiisset populus,
6 King Rehoboam asked for advice from the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive. “How do you advise me to reply to these people about this?” he asked.
iniit consilium cum senibus, qui steterant coram patre eius Salomone dum adhuc viveret, dicens: Quid datis consilii ut respondeam populo?
7 They replied, “If you treat these people well, and please them by speaking kindly to them, they will always serve you.”
Qui dixerunt ei: Si placueris populo huic, et leniveris eos verbis clementibus, servient tibi omni tempore.
8 But Rehoboam dismissed the advice of the elders. He instead asked advice from the young men who he had grown up with, and who were close to him.
At ille reliquit consilium senum, et cum iuvenibus tractare cœpit, qui cum eo nutriti fuerant, et erant in comitatu illius.
9 He asked them, “What response do you advise that we send back to these people who have told me, ‘Lighten the burden your father put on us’?”
Dixitque ad eos: Quid vobis videtur? vel respondere quid debeo populo huic, qui dixit mihi: Subleva iugum quod imposuit nobis pater tuus?
10 The young men who he had grown up with told him, “This is what you have to tell these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our burden heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should answer them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!
At illi responderunt ut iuvenes, et nutriti cum eo in deliciis, atque dixerunt: Sic loqueris populo, qui dixit tibi: Pater tuus aggravavit iugum nostrum, tu subleva: et sic respondebis ei: Minimus digitus meus grossior est lumbis patris mei.
11 My father placed a heavy burden on you, and I will make it even heavier. My father punished you with whips; I will punish you with scorpions.’”
Pater meus imposuit vobis grave iugum, et ego maius pondus apponam: pater meus cecidit vos flagellis, ego vero cædam vos scorpionibus.
12 Three days later, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, because the king had told them, “Come back in three days time.”
Venit ergo Ieroboam, et universus populus ad Roboam die tertio, sicut præceperat eis.
13 The king answered them sharply. Dismissing the advice of the elders,
Responditque rex dura, derelicto consilio seniorum:
14 he replied using the advice of the young men. He said, “My father placed a heavy burden on you, and I will make it even heavier. My father punished you with whips; I will punish you with scorpions.”
locutusque est iuxta iuvenum voluntatem: Pater meus grave vobis imposuit iugum, quod ego gravius faciam: pater meus cecidit vos flagellis, ego vero cædam vos scorpionibus.
15 The king did not listen to what the people said, for this change in circumstances was from God, to fulfill what Lord had told Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
Et non acquievit populi precibus: erat enim voluntatis Dei ut compleretur sermo eius, quem locutus fuerat per manum Ahiæ Silonitis ad Ieroboam filium Nabat.
16 When all the Israelites saw that the king wasn't listening to them, they told the king: “What share do we have in David, and what part do we have in the son of Jesse? Go home, Israel! You're on your own, house of David!” So all the Israelites went home.
Populus autem universus rege duriora dicente, sic locutus est ad eum: Non est nobis pars in David, neque hereditas in filio Isai. Revertere in tabernacula tua Israel, tu autem pasce domum tuam David. Et abiit Israel in tabernacula sua.
17 However, Rehoboam still ruled over the Israelites who lived in Judah.
Super filios autem Israel, qui habitabant in civitatibus Iuda, regnavit Roboam.
18 Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam quickly jumped into his chariot and raced back to Jerusalem.
Misitque rex Roboam Aduram, qui præerat tributis, et lapidaverunt eum filii Israel, et mortuus est: porro rex Roboam currum festinavit ascendere, et fugit in Ierusalem.
19 As a result, Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
Recessitque Israel a domo David, usque ad diem hanc.
