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Secession of the Northern Tribes(A)

12 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem because all of Israel went there to install him as king. Nebat’s son Jeroboam heard about it while he was still in Egypt, where he had fled to get away from King Solomon. Jeroboam returned from Egypt

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Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam(A)

12 Rehoboam went to Shechem,(B) for all Israel had gone there to make him king. When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled(C) from King Solomon), he returned from[a] Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:2 Or he remained in