1 Kings 12:1-3

Revised Geneva Translation

12 And Rehoboam went to Shechem. For all Israel had come to Shechem, to make him king.

² And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, heard of it (who was still in Egypt, where Jeroboam had fled from King Solomon and dwelt in Egypt),

³ they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the Congregation of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,