10. They replied, “This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.’
11. Tell them, ‘My father placed heavy burdens on you; I will make them even heavier. He beat you with a whip; I'll flog you with a horsewhip!’ ”
12. Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to King Rehoboam, as he had instructed them.
13. The king ignored the advice of the older men and spoke harshly to the people,
14. as the younger men had advised. He said, “My father placed heavy burdens on you; I will make them even heavier. He beat you with a whip; I'll flog you with a horsewhip!”
15. It was the will of the Lord God to bring about what he had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh. This is why the king did not pay any attention to the people.