2 Chronicles 10:3

Bible in Basic English

And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So they summoned him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam:

Hebrew Names Version
They sent and called him; and Yarov`am and all Yisra'el came, and they spoke to Rechav`am, saying,

King James Version
And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

English Standard Version
And they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam,

New Century Version
After the people sent for him, he and the people went to Rehoboam and said to him,

New English Translation
They sent for him and Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Amplified Bible
And the people sent messengers and summoned him. So when Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

New American Standard Bible
So they sent word and summoned him. When Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

World English Bible
They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they sent and called him: so came Ieroboam and all Israel, and communed with Rehoboam, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then they sent and called for him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

Contemporary English Version
The people from the northern tribes of Israel sent for him. Then together they went to Rehoboam and said,

Complete Jewish Bible
They sent and summoned him, so Yarov‘am and all Isra'el came and said to Rechav‘am,

Darby Translation
And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam saying,

George Lamsa Translation
They came and said to Rehoboam the son of Solomon,

Good News Translation
The people of the northern tribes sent for him, and they all went together to Rehoboam and said to him,

Lexham English Bible
And they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel went, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Literal Translation
And they sent and called for him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they sent for him and called him. And Ieroboam came with all Israel, and spake to Roboam, and sayde:

American Standard Version
And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spake to Rehoboam, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they sent and called him: And so Ieroboam and all they of Israel, came and communed with Rehoboam, saying:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And they sent and called him. So Ieroboam and all Israel came, and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam and all the congregation came to Roboam, saying,

English Revised Version
And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spake to Rehoboam, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei clepiden hym, and he cam with al Israel, and thei spaken to Roboam, and seiden,

Update Bible Version
And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

New King James Version
Then they sent for him and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

New Living Translation
The leaders of Israel summoned him, and Jeroboam and all Israel went to speak with Rehoboam.

New Life Bible
And the people sent for him. Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

New Revised Standard
They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they sent, and called him, so Jeroboam and all Israel came, - and spake unto Rehoboam, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:

Revised Standard Version
And they sent and called him; and Jerobo'am and all Israel came and said to Rehobo'am,

Young's Literal Translation
and they send and call for him, and Jeroboam cometh in, and all Israel, and speak unto Rehoboam, saying,

THE MESSAGE
Summoned by Israel, Jeroboam and all Israel went to Rehoboam and said, "Your father made life hard for us—worked our fingers to the bone. Give us a break; lighten up on us and we'll willingly serve you."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they sent and summoned him. When Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king. ² And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt. ³ And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said, ⁴ Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants. ⁵ And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away. ⁶ Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people? ⁷ And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever. ⁸ But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him. ⁹ And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us? ¹⁰ And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they sent: 1 Kings 12:3

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:2 - Jeroboam the son of Nebat

Cross-References

Jeremiah 51:27
Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.

Ezekiel 27:14
The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The narrative of Kings (marginal reference) is repeated with only slight verbal differences.