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27 This is the account of how he rebelled against the king.

When Solomon was rebuilding the Millo and repairing the gap in the wall in the city of his father David, 28 Jeroboam showed that he was a very capable man. When Solomon saw that the young man was a capable worker, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.[a] 29 At that time, when Jeroboam left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him on the road.[b] Ahijah was wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone in the field.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:28 That is, the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh
  2. 1 Kings 11:29 The Greek Old Testament has the additional words marked by the half-brackets: Ahijah from Shiloh met him on the roadand caused him to turn aside out of the road⎦. The additional words are found between two occcurrences of the road.