1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.
2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon. Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
3 They sent for him and Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
4 “Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”
5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.
6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”