1 Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come [to] Shechem to make him king.
2
And it happened [that] when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard [it]--now he [was] in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon--Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
3
And they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel went, and they spoke to Rehoboam, 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.
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