26Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, whose mother was named Zeruah, was a widow and a servant of Solomon; he raised his hand against the king.27This was the matter by which he raised his hand against King Solomon: he built the Millo and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.28The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; Solomon saw the young man because he was doing work, and he appointed him over every burden of the house of Joseph.29At that time Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite the prophet found him on the way while he was covering himself with a new garment; the two of them were alone in the field.30Ahijah seized the new garment that was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.31He said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and give ten tribes to you."32Yet the one tribe will be his for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.33Because they have forsaken me and bowed down to Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh the god of Moab, and to Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways by doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my statutes and my ordinances as David his father did.34I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand, because I will set him as ruler all the days of his life for the sake of my servant David whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes.35I will take the kingship from the hand of his son and give ten tribes to you.36To his son I will give one tribe, so that my servant David may have a lamp before me all the days in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to put my name there.37I will take you, and you will reign over all that your soul desires, and you will be king over Israel.38If you listen to all that I command you and walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments as my servant David did, then I will be with you and build you a faithful house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.39I will afflict the seed of David for this, but not all the days.40Solomon sought to put Jeroboam to death, but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.