When Rehoboam became king the people asked for a reduction in taxes and the work load, so he made consultations over a 3-day period about the matter. The older experienced counsellors proposed that he should grant the people their request, but a younger contemporary group of counsellors rejected the people's request and even proposed a tax/workload increase! Rehoboam opted for his peers' response causing a disastrous political rift, with Israel rebelling against Rehoboam. They stoned the man in charge of forced labour to death but Rehoboam escaped. Thus Israel in the north has been in rebellion against Judah and the house of David since then.
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