Solomon’s son Rehoboam goes to Shechem to be crowned king of all Israel. The tribal elders from the ten northern tribes request that he lessen their taxes to which Rehoboam consults his father’s advisors who advise him to grant their request. Then Rehoboam asks his childhood friends who counsel as fools, resulting in the split up of the kingdom. The abject stupidity of Rehoboam and his friends gives any rational person a migraine. Then the new king of the northern tribes implements idolatry to keep his people from Jerusalem.