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2 Chronicles 10:1

Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Rehoboam;   Rulers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jeroboam;   Rehoboam;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Divided Kingdom;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jacob;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Rehoboam ;   Shechem ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cities of refuge;   Rehoboam;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Cities of Refuge,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shechem;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.
Hebrew Names Version
Rechav`am went to Shekhem; for all Yisra'el were come to Shekhem to make him king.
King James Version
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
English Standard Version
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
New Century Version
Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all the Israelites had gone to make him king.
Amplified Bible
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
New American Standard Bible
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
World English Bible
Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Sheche came all Israel to make him king.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
Contemporary English Version
Rehoboam went to Shechem where everyone was waiting to crown him king.
Complete Jewish Bible
Rechav‘am went to Sh'khem, where all Isra'el had come in order to proclaim him king.
Darby Translation
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jeroboam son of Nebat was still in Egypt where he had run away from Solomon. When he heard about Solomon's death, he returned to his city, Zeredah, in the hills of Ephraim. Rehoboam and all the Israelites went to Shechem to make Rehoboam the king. The people said to Rehoboam,
George Lamsa Translation
AND Rehoboam went to Shechem; for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
Good News Translation
Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all the people of northern Israel had gathered to make him king.
Lexham English Bible
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Literal Translation
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Roboam wente vnto Sichem: for all Israel was come vnto Sichem: to make him kinge.
American Standard Version
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
Bible in Basic English
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Rehoboam went to Sichem: for to Sichem were all Israel come together to make him king.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
King James Version (1611)
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Roboam came to Sychem: for all Israel came to Sychem to make him king.
English Revised Version
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Roboam yede forth in to Sichem; for al Israel came togidere thidur to make hym kyng.
Update Bible Version
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem had all Israel come to make him king.
New King James Version
1 Kings 12:1-19">[xr] And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.
New Living Translation
Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had gathered to make him king.
New Life Bible
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem. All Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
New Revised Standard
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, - for, to Shechem, had all Israel come, to make him king.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled, to make him king.
Revised Standard Version
Rehobo'am went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Young's Literal Translation
And Rehoboam goeth to Shechem, for [to] Shechem have all Israel come to cause him to reign.
THE MESSAGE
Rehoboam traveled to Shechem where all Israel had gathered to inaugurate him as king. Jeroboam was then in Egypt, where he had taken asylum from King Solomon; when he got the report of Solomon's death, he came back.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

Contextual Overview

1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king. 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon. Jeroboam returned from Egypt. 3 They sent for him and Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, 4 "Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don't make us work as hard, we will serve you." 5 He said to them, "Go away for three days, then return to me." So the people went away. 6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, "How do you advise me to answer these people?" 7 They said to him, "If you are fair to these people, grant their request, and are cordial to them, they will be your servants from this time forward." 8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. 9 He asked them, "How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us'?" 10 The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him, "Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden'—say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Rehoboam: 1 Kings 12:1, 1 Chronicles 3:10, Matthew 1:7, Roboam

Shechem: Genesis 12:6, Sichem, Genesis 37:12, Genesis 37:13, Joshua 20:7, Joshua 24:1, Judges 9:1

all: 1 Kings 4:1, 1 Chronicles 12:38

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created—when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.
Genesis 5:1
This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.
Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it."
Genesis 9:19
These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
Matthew 1:1
This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER X

The people apply to Rehoboam to ease them of their burdens, 1-4.

Rejecting the advice of the aged counsellors, and following that

of the young men, he gives them an ungracious answer, 5-14.

The people are discouraged, and ten tribes revolt, 15-17.

They stone Hadoram, who went to collect the tribute; and

Rehoboam but barely escapes, 18, 19.

NOTES ON CHAP. X

Verse 2 Chronicles 10:1. Rehoboam went to Shechem — This chapter is almost word for word the same as 1 Kings 12:1-19, to the notes on which the reader is referred.


 
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