Bible in Basic English
"And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,"
— 1 Kings 12:3, Bible in Basic English
“That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,”
“and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, ”
“and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,”
“They sent for him, and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,”
“And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:”
“That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,”
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.
Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?