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,
4 “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you.”