12:1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in 4 Shechem to make Rehoboam 5 king.
1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
2 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
3 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
4 tn Heb “come [to].”
5 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.