<p class="bodytext">Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon&#8217;s servants, rebelled against<n id="1" /> the king. He was an Ephraimite<n id="2" /> from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a man from Ramathaim Zophim,<n id="1" /> from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem<n id="2" /> in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul&#8217;s days he was old and well advanced in years.<n id="3" />