1 Kings 12:17

but I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you—the ten tribes.

“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the rest of the people, saying,

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

“Now as for you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’