The leaders of Israel summoned him, and Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel went to speak with Rehoboam.
When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of this, he returned from Egypt, for he had fled to Egypt to escape from King Solomon.
“Your father was a hard master,” they said. “Lighten the harsh labor demands and heavy taxes that your father imposed on us. Then we will be your loyal subjects.”
The leaders of Israel summoned him, and Jeroboam and all Israel went to speak with Rehoboam.
One day Gideon’s son Abimelech went to Shechem to visit his uncles—his mother’s brothers. He said to them and to the rest of his mother’s family,