They sent for him, and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.”

The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ Say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father!

Some men came by and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. They went and reported what they had seen in the city where the old prophet lived.