7 And idle men,+ good-for-nothing fellows,+ kept collecting themselves together by him. Finally they proved superior to Re·ho·boʹam the son of Solʹo·mon, when Re·ho·boʹam+ himself happened to be young and fainthearted,+ and he did not hold his own against them.

5 But the Jews, getting jealous,+ took into their company certain wicked men of the marketplace idlers and formed a mob and proceeded to throw the city into an uproar.+ And they assaulted the house of Jaʹson+ and went seeking to have them brought forth to the rabble.