1
Rechav`am went to Shekhem; for all Yisra'el were come to Shekhem to make him king.
2
It happened, when Yarov`am the son of Nevat heard of it, (for he was in Mitzrayim, where he had fled from the presence of king Shlomo,) that Yarov`am returned out of Mitzrayim.
3
They sent and called him; and Yarov`am and all Yisra'el came, and they spoke to Rechav`am, saying,
This chapter is not only in sense the same, but is expressed almost in the selfsame words as First Kings chapter twelve, verses one through nineteen, so there needs not anything to be added to the notes there, which the reader is referred to.