And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, a servant of Solomon (and his mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman) he also lifted up a hand against the king.
The case is not such. For a man of the hills of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri is his name, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Give him up by himself and I will go away from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head will be thrown over the wall to you.
And Jehovah said to Solomon, Because this has been done by you, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes that I commanded on you, tearing I shall tear the kingdom from you and shall give it to your servant.
And the man Jeroboam was a mighty one of strength. And Solomon saw the young man, that he was doing work. And he appointed him to all the burden of the house of Joseph.
And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard (and he was still in Egypt where he had fled from the face of Solomon the king, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,)
because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin by his provocation with which he provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger.
And I shall give up your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and have caused Israel to sin.
But Solomon did not give as a slave out of the sons of Israel, for they were the men of war, and his servants, and his rulers, and his commanders, and the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.
And the rest of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
And Gilead captured the fords of the Jordan before Ephraim. And it happened when the fugitives from Ephraim said, Let me pass over, even the men of Gilead said to him, You are an Ephraimite. And he said, No.
And the name of the man was Elimelech; and the name of his wife Naomi. And the name of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites from Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the fields of Moab, and remained there.
And there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim from the hills of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.