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| Chapter XVIII. We learn from the fact of the separation of the ten tribes from King Rehoboam what harm bad counsellors can do.
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Chapter XVIII.
We learn from the fact of the separation of the ten
tribes from King Rehoboam what harm bad counsellors can do.
93. Justice, then,
especially graces men that are set over any office;513
| 513 Cic. de
Off. II. 22, § 77. | on the other hand, injustice fails them and
fights against them. Scripture itself gives us an example, where
it says, that when the people of Israel, after the death of Solomon,
had asked his son Rehoboam to free their neck from their cruel yoke,
and to lighten the harshness of his father’s rule, he, despising
the counsel of the old men, gave the following answer at the suggestion
of the young men: “He would add a burden to the yoke of his
father, and change their lighter toils for harder.”514
94. Angered by this answer, the people
said: “We have no portion in David, nor inheritance in the
son of Jesse. Return to your tents, O Israel. For we will
not have this man for a prince or a leader over us.”515
So, forsaken and deserted by the
people, he could keep with him scarce two of the ten tribes for
David’s sake.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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