2 Chronicles 10:16 VOICE

[16] Just as predicted, the Northern tribes formed a nation separate from Judah because the king did not listen to them. Israelites (to Rehoboam): God promised the kingdom of Israel to David and his sons. Why should we follow David's descendants when we do not share in the inheritance of Jesse's son? Let us form our own nation in the North, and so every Israelite should return to his house. In the same way, let the Judahites and the Benjaminites continue by themselves as the house of David in the South. Most of the Israelites left Shechem to form a new Northern Kingdom,