Day 162: Rehoboam Seeks Counsel (2026)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation. Discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 162. We are beginning a new period, time period, the period of the divided kingdom. We'll be here for the next 21 days in the period of the divided kingdom. It is, if you've listened to the podcast with Jeff and myself talking about this time period of the divided kingdom, there are lots of ups and downs.
There are lots of people. There are lots of names. You thought First Chronicles was rough. This is going to be not rough in terms of names, but in terms of there's a lot of action, both in the north, in the new kingdom of Israel, and in the south, in the new kingdom of Judah. And so We're launching in today. It's, as I said, day 162. We're reading from 1 Kings chapter 12 and 2 Chronicles 10 and 11. Now, when we hear this, when you read 1 Kings 12 and 2 Chronicles 10, you're going to say, wait, did you literally just say the exact same thing? Are you reading the same thing? Because it sounds very similar, at least at first. And so just keep that in mind.
What is the historical context of Day 162 and the divided kingdom?
It's going to be kind of the same story, the story of the division of the kingdom told immediately. And then actually today, we're also introducing a new book. the book of the Song of Solomon, chapter one. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. You can also subscribe to this podcast if you like. If that's the kind of thing that, if that's the kind of person you are, a subscriber, then go ahead and click subscribe. It is day 162. We're reading 1 Kings 12, 2 Chronicles 10 and 11, and Song of Solomon, chapter one.
The first book of Kings, chapter 12. The northern tribes secede. Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, heard of it, for he was still in Egypt whither he had fled from King Solomon, then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam, your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke upon us, and we will serve you. He said to them, Depart for three days, then come again to me. So the people went away. Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, How do you advise me to answer this people?
And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever. But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. And he said to them, What do you advise, that we answer this people who have said to me, Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us? And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, Your father made our yoke heavy, but please lighten it for us. Thus you shall say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins. And now, whereas my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke.
My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, Come to me again the third day. And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel which the old men had given him, he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–1:11
2
What is the historical context of Day 162 and the divided kingdom?
1:11–4:00
3
Which Bible passages are we reading today and why are they paired?
4:00–9:02
4
How did Rehoboam respond when the northern tribes asked for lighter burdens?
9:02–12:45
5
Why did Rehoboam choose the counsel of young men over the elders?
12:45–17:32
6
How did the people's reaction lead to the split between Israel and Judah?
17:32–23:39