1 Rehoboam went to Shechem. All of the people of Israel had gone there to make him king.
2
Jeroboam heard about it. He was the son of Nebat. Jeroboam was in Egypt at that time. He had gone there for safety. He wanted to get away from King Solomon. But now he returned from Egypt.
3
So the people sent for Jeroboam. He and all of the people went to Rehoboam. They said to him,
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.