25. Jeroboam built up Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. Then he left it and built up Penuel.
26. Jeroboam thought to himself: “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
27. If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, the hearts of this people will return to their master, Rehoboam, king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam, king of Judah.”