2 Chronicles 10:15-17

Living Bible

¹⁵ So the king turned down the people’s demands. (God caused him to do it in order to fulfill his prediction^[a] spoken to Jeroboam by Ahijah the Shilonite.) ¹⁶ When the people realized what the king was saying, they turned their backs and deserted him.

“Forget David and his dynasty!” they shouted angrily. “We’ll get someone else to be our king. Let Rehoboam rule his own tribe of Judah! Let’s go home!” So they did.

¹⁷ The people of the tribe of Judah, however, remained loyal to Rehoboam.