12:1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in 1 Shechem to make Rehoboam 2 king.
12:25 3 Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.
1 tn Heb “come [to].”
2 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tc The Old Greek translation has here a lengthy section consisting of twenty-three verses that are not found in the MT.