^{1 Ref} And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

^{2 Ref} And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

³ And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,