Rehoboam Goes to Shechem

1 Kings 12:1-5

And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.

But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of Egypt.

And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:

Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now, therefore, do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again. And when the people was gone,

Rehoboam Goes to Shechem

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