Section 70
Then Tsadoq the Kohen took Reḥav'am and made him king, and he anointed him and performed for him whatever the Torah demanded. And Reḥav'am laid a tablet of wood upon the Tabot, and he found it with the name of his father Shəlomah [written upon] it, and then they set him upon the king’s mule, and said to him, “ All hail! Long live the royal father! ” and the city resounded with cries, and the trumpet was blown. And before Reḥav'am could return to his father Shəlomah died. And they laid Shəlomah in the tomb of his father Daviyd, and they mourned for him with great mourning, for there was not found his like in wisdom in those days. And when seven days had passed Reḥav'am made the mourning for his father to cease. And the people of Yisra'el gathered themselves together to Reḥav'am, and they said to him, “ Lighten for us [our] labour, for your father made it very heavy in the hewing of wood, and in the dressing of stone, and in making wagons for bringing down cedarwood.” And Reḥav'am took counsel with the councillors and the elders of the house of the king, and they said to him, “ Answer them graciously. For at this present you are like a young animal and your loins are not able to bear the yoke. And now, speak to them graciously, and say to them, ‘ I will do for you everything you wish.’ And when your hand has gotten power over them you canst do with your people what you wishest.” And Reḥav'am drove out the elders and brought in the foolish young men who had been brought up with him. And he took counsel with them, and told them of the message which the house of Yisra'el had sent to him and what the elders of the house of the king had counselled him to do. And those foolish young men said to him, “ An aged man gives the counsel of an aged man, and the elder gives the counsel of an elder, and a man stricken in years gives the counsel of the man who is stricken in years, and a young man like thyself gives the counsel which appertaineth to youth. As for these men who are stricken in years, their loins are as tender as those of a young animal that cannot walk. And as concerning this matter of which you speakest, who can dispute the command of our Yahuah the King? ” And one of them leaped up into the air before Reḥav'am, and another drew his sword, and another brandished his spear, and another seized his bow and quiver. And when they had made an end of their playing they counselled him, saying, “ O our Yahuah, may we be with you, and you with us! Now your father in wisdom gave us, the sons of men of Yisra'el who are learned in the are of war, to grow up with you that your kingdom might be strong after him. O our Yahuah, show not a timid face to those men, lest they think that you are weak and are not able to make war against them and against your enemies. For if they see in us an attitude of weakness in word and in deed, we shall be held in contempt by them, and they will not give us gifts, or presents, or slaves, or tribute, and your kingdom will be destroyed. But address them with bold words, and speak to them haughtily, saying, c In respect of my father you say in wood and in stone, but I will make you to serve me with chains of iron and with scorpion-whips. For my thin flank shall be stronger than the thickest part of my father’s body, and my counsel is greater than the counsel of my father who begot me. None shall diminish for you the labour and the forced service, nay it shall be increased for you in every particular. And if you will not do my command, I will make your cattle my plunder, and your children shall be captives, and my knife of slaughter shall consume you. And I will seize your cities and your fields, and your plantations, and your wells, and your gardens, and your lands, and your fruit (or, crops), and I will bind your honourable ones in chains of iron, and your riches shall [provide] food for my servants, and your women shall be for the adornment of the house of my nobles. And I will not alter this my decision, and will not diminish it, and I will neither make it to be a lie nor to have no effect; and I will carry it out quickly, and will write it down for ever. For the whole of this land was given to Daviyd my grandfather for his kingdom, and to my father Shəlomah after him. And [Elohim] has given it to me after my fathers as to them, and I will make you to serve me as you served them; and now take counsel and obey me.’ ” And thus also did Reḥav'am speak to the elders of Yisra'el. And the people all rose up together in their full number, and they said, “ Get back to [your] house[s], O Yisra'el. Have we none else -whom we can make king save in the house of Yehudah and in the house of Binyamin? We will reject their houses and the men of both of them, and we will make as our king and governor the man whom we wish for and in whom our soul delighteth.” And they took up their weapons of war, and fled in a body, and came to the city of Samaria of Beth Efrata, where they took counsel and were gathered together in a body. And the house of Yisra'el cast lots among themselves so that they might make king the man whom they chose from the house of the father of the man in which the lot fell. And the lot fell on the house of Ephraim, on the son of Nabat, and they chose a man from the house of his father, and made Jeroboam king. And thus was the kingdom separated from Reḥav'am, the son of Shəlomah, and there were left to it only the house of Binyamin and the house of Yehudah his father. And the word which Elohim spoke to Daviyd His servant was not made a lie, “ Of the fruit of your body I will make to sit upon your throne ”; and again He said, “ Ordained like the moon for ever ”; and again He said, “ Elohim sware to Daviyd truly and will not repent.” He Who reigned on the throne of Daviyd His father was Yahushua the Mashiach, his kinsman in the flesh by a virgin, Who sat upon the throne of His Godhead; and upon earth He granted to reign upon His throne the King of Ethiopia, Shəlomah’s firstborn. To Reḥav'am Elohim gave only two stems (or, roots); and the King of Rōmē is the youngest son of Shəlomah. And Elohim did this in order that foolish people might not call us Yehudim, because of Shəlomah and because of Reḥav'am his son - now Elohim knows the heart - and He did this that they might not imagine such a thing. They called Reḥav'am “ King of Yehudah,” and they called the King of Samaria “ King of Yisra'el.” And of the generations of Reḥav'am, from Reḥav'am to ’tyakem (Yo'aqim) were forty-one generations. And there were born to Malki two children, Levi and Shem, the begetter of Hon ase. And Honase begat Kalamyos, and Kalamyos begat Yo'aqim, and Yo'aqim begat Miryam, the daughter of Daviyd. And again ’111 begat Malki, and Malki begat Mati, and Mati begat ’fill, and Ya'aqov, and H anna, the wife of Yo'aqim. And ’fill took a wife and died without children. And Ya'aqov took to wife Yohada, the wife of ’fill, and he begat by her Yoseph the carpenter, who was the betrothed of Miryam. And Yoseph was the son of Ya'aqov in the flesh and the son of ’fili according to the The Temptation of Mashiach in the Desert. the Adversary appears in the form of an elderly bearded man and is offering a stone to our Yahuah. Behind him stands the Spirit of Satan in the form of a man with wings, horns, tail, and claws instead of feet Torah; now Elohim had commanded Mosheh that the beney Yisra'el were to marry their kinsfolk, each in the house of his fathers, and that they were not to marry alien women.