Read 1 Kings 12.1-15
In 12.1-24: The division of the kingdom.
In verses 2-3a: These verses are contradicted by v. 20, in which Jeroboam does not return until after the secession of the northern tribes.
Verses 2-3a are not in the Greek (Septuagint, LXX) version of 1 Kings and are probably a secondary scribal gloss.
In verse 10: My father's loins is a euphemism.
Rehoboam is saying that he is more of a man than his father so that the people can expect harsher treatment from him than from Solomon.
In verse 11: Rehoboam makes the same point here, where scorpions may refer to a particularly vicious kind of whip.
In verse 12: Jeroboam's name is secondary here, having been added under the influence of vv. 2-3a.
In verse 15: The author interprets the events in explicitly theological terms as the Lord's doing to fulfill Ahijah's oracle in 11.29-39.
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