1 Kings 12:16

Revolt of the ten tribes (Cf. 2 Chronicles 10:16-19)

16. all Israel saw that the king hearkened not Josephus says -they were struck by his words as by an iron rod and grieved as though the words of the king had been actually put into execution."

What portion have we in David? Very similar words were used (2 Samuel 20:1) by Sheba the Benjamite when he strove to rouse the people against David. The tribe of Judah was more closely connected with the house of Jesse, because his home was at Bethlehem.

To your tents, O Israel i.e. Disperse to your homes, that you may take steps for protecting yourselves, and arranging for resistance to the threatened severity.

see to thine own house As though the tribe to which he belonged was now all that would be left to him. The LXX. reads βόσκε τὸν οἷκόν σου, as though their text had been רעה =-to feed" and not as in the Massoretic text ראה =to see.