1 Kings 12:2

“And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, etc.] Of the death of Solomon, and of the meeting of the Israelites at Shechem: (for he was fled from the presence of King Solomon; (see <111140>1 Kings 11:40) and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) until the death of Solomon; some render the words, “Jeroboam, returned out of Egypt” f304, which agrees with (<141002>2 Chronicles 10:2), this he did on hearing the above news, and on being sent for by some of his friends, as follows.”

“Heard of it - i. e., of the death of Solomon and accession of Rehoboam. This would be more clear without the division into chapters; which division, it must be remembered, is without authority. Dwelt in Egypt - By a change of the pointing of one word, and of one letter in another, the Hebrew text here will read as in 2 Chronicles 10:2, “returned out of Egypt; and they sent and called him.” In the Septuagint Version the story of Jeroboam is told in two different ways. The general narrative agrees closely with the Hebrew text; but an insertion into the body of 1 Kings 12:0 - remarkable for its minuteness and circumstantiality - at once deranges the order of the events, and gives to the history…”

“Jeroboam the son of Nebat: Kg1 11:26-31, Kg1 11:40; Ch2 10:2, Ch2 10:3 3 Kings (1 Kings) 12:4”