Malchus Yisroel actually was divinely given to Yerovom. Hashem came to him and told him that Hashem would split the nation in 2 with Malchus Bais Dovid keeping Yehuda and Binyomin and Yerovom receiving the other 10. Yerovom at that point was a tzadik. In fact there’s a medrash that says that Hashem said to Yerovom, let’s go for a walk, you, me and ben yishai, meaning Dovid. Yerovom asked who’s walking up front and Hashem answered, Dovid and Yerovom said no I am not interested. He felt greater than Dovid which wasn’t true and led to his downfall. When Yerovom was successfull in becoming the new king of Malchus Yisroel, he realized that all of his kingdom would be going to the Bais Hamikdosh which was in Yehuda-Binyomin. And since the halocho is that ein yeshiva babayis chutz mi’malchei yehuda, that the kings of yehuda could sit but that he couldn’t sit, he was afraid that his people would return to Malchus Bais Dovid. So he then made his own religion, obviously against Hashem and thus became a rosho.
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