1 Kings 12:5
in 1 Kings 12Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
KJV
And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
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This verse in 1 Kings 12
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
all the congregation of Israel
on 1 Kings 12:3-5
The whole congregation, not a faction, brings one grievance: lighten the yoke and the heavy service Solomon laid on us, and we will serve thee. The complaint names no idol and asks for no new god, only relief from labor and taxation spent on a court, a temple, and a harem the text has already itemized in the chapters before this one. Rehoboam's three-day delay is itself sound counsel, taken from the old men, before it is thrown away.
This site's exposition
Go away for three days
Rehoboam asks for three days before he gives his answer. In that time he hears the elders at verse 6 and the young men at verse 8. The people return on the third day, at verse 12, to hear which counsel he took.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And he said unto them, depart yet for three days, then come again to me,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Depart yet for three days--It was prudent to take the people's demand into calm and deliberate consideration. Whether, had the advice of the sage and experienced counsellors been followed, any good result would have followed, it is impossible to say.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֣אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם | ʾaleihem | to them | H413 → | 5510 times |
| לְכ֥וּ | lekhu | go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| עֹ֛ד | ʾod | yet | H5750 → | 490 times |
| שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה | sheloshah | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| יָמִ֖ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| וְשׁ֣וּבוּ | veshuvu | and return | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| אֵלָ֑י | ʾelai | to me | H413 → | 5510 times |
| וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ | vaiyelekhu | and they went | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| הָעָֽם׃ | haam | the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
אֲלֵיהֶ֗םto them
ʾaleihemH413 →5510 times
לְכ֥וּgo
lekhuH1980 →1546 times
עֹ֛דyet
ʾodH5750 →490 times
שְׁלֹשָׁ֥הthree
sheloshahH7969 →432 times
יָמִ֖יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
וְשׁ֣וּבוּand return
veshuvuH7725 →1056 times
אֵלָ֑יto me
ʾelaiH413 →5510 times
וַיֵּלְכ֖וּand they went
vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times
הָעָֽם׃the people
haamH5971 →1873 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
1 stopEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 12:12After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 10:12–14
After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
- 2 Chronicles 10:12–14
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.