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Chapter 12

Israel's Appeal to Rehoboam

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Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all of Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
It happened that Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard [of it] while he was still in Egypt where he had fled from the face of King Solomon, and Jeroboam had lived in Egypt.