1. Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come to make him king.
2. When Jeroboam, son of Nebat, heard about it, he was still in Egypt. He had fled from King Solomon and remained in Egypt,
3. and they sent for him.Then Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and they said to Rehoboam,
4. “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. If you now lighten the harsh servitude and the heavy yoke your father imposed on us, we will be your servants.”
5. He answered them, “Come back to me in three days,” and the people went away.
6. King Rehoboam asked advice of the elders who had been in his father Solomon’s service while he was alive, and asked, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”