1 Mga Hari 11:28

Si Jeroboam ay isang lalaking malakas at matapang. Nakita ni Solomon ang binata na masipag, kaya ibinigay sa kaniya ang pamamahala sa lahat ng gawain sa tahanan ni Jose.

And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.