1 Kings 12:1

Douay-Rheims Bible

And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.

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 all Israel were come to Shechem 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.

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

Amplified Bible
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for al Israel were come to Sheche, to make him king

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem 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 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 him the king. The people said to Rehoboam,

George Lamsa Translation
AND Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem 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 of 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)
And Roboam wete vnto Sichem, for all Israel was come to Sichem to make him kynge.

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 Siche: for all Israel were come to Sichem, 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 all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And king Roboam goes to Sikima; for all Israel were coming to Sikima to make him king.

English Revised Version
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were 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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Roboam cam in to Sichem; for al Israel was gaderid thidur to make hym kyng.

Young's Literal Translation
And Rehoboam goeth to Shechem, for to Shechem hath all Israel come to make him king.

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 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.

New King James Version
2 Chronicles 10:1-19; 11:1-4">[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
Rehoboam went to Shechem. For 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.

Revised Standard Version
Rehobo'am went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

THE MESSAGE
Rehoboam traveled to Shechem where all Israel had gathered to inaugurate him as king. Jeroboam had been in Egypt, where he had taken asylum from King Solomon; when he got the report of Solomon's death he had come 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 And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king. ² But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of Egypt. ³ And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying: ⁴ Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now, therefore, do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee. ⁵ And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again. And when the people was gone, ⁶ King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before Solomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people? ⁷ They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and condescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle words to them, they will be thy servants always. ⁸ But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and stood before him. ⁹ And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke, which thy father put upon us, lighter? ¹⁰ And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus shalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My little finger is thicker than the back of my father.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Rehoboam: 1 Kings 11:43, 2 Chronicles 10:1-19

Shechem: Genesis 12:6, Sichem, Genesis 33:18, Genesis 33:19, Joshua 20:7, Joshua 24:1, Joshua 24:32, Judges 9:1, Psalms 60:6, Acts 7:16, Sychem

Reciprocal: Joshua 17:7 - Shechem Joshua 21:21 - Shechem Judges 9:6 - plain 1 Kings 12:25 - Shechem 2 Kings 21:24 - made Josiah Proverbs 11:14 - General Jeremiah 41:5 - Shechem Matthew 1:7 - Roboam Matthew 2:20 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 12:3
I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

Genesis 12:10
And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

Genesis 12:11
And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:

Genesis 15:7
And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

Nehemiah 9:7
Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham.

Isaiah 41:9
In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the remote parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast thee away.

Isaiah 51:2
Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places in the land of Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many, the land is given us in possession.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Rehoboam went to Shechem,.... After the death and internment of his father:

for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king: as was pretended, though in reality it was to seek occasion against him, and make Jeroboam king; it is very probable they knew of the prophecy of Ahijah, and therefore would not go to Jerusalem, but to Shechem, a city in the tribe of Ephraim, of which Jeroboam was, and where he had sowed the seeds of sedition when ruler there; and this place they chose, partly because they could more freely speak what they had in their minds, and partly for the safety of Jeroboam they had sent for on this occasion; so that Rehoboam went thither not of choice, but of necessity. The Jews c observe that this place was very ominous; here Dinah was ravished, Joseph was sold, Abimelech exercised tyranny, and here now the kingdom was divided.

c T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 102. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The first step taken by the new king was a most judicious one. If anything could have removed the disaffection of the Ephraimites, and caused them to submit to the ascendancy of Judah, it would have been the honor done to their capital by its selection as the scene of the coronation. Shechem (now Nablous) lay on the flank of Mount Gerizim, directly opposite to Mount Ebal, in a position second to none in all Palestine. Though Abimelech had destroyed the place Judges 9:45, it had probably soon risen again, and was once more a chief city, or perhaps “the” chief city, of Ephraim. Its central position made it a convenient place for the general assembly of the tribes, as it had been in the days of Joshua Joshua 8:30-35; Joshua 24:1-28; and this would furnish an additional reason for its selection.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XII

The people go to Shechem to make Rehoboam king, and send for

Jeroboam out of Egypt, who with the heads of the tribes,

requests relief from the heavy burdens laid on them by Solomon,

14.

He requires three days to consider their petition, 5.

He rejects the counsel of the elders, who served his father,

and follows that of young men, and returns the people a

provoking answer, 6-15.

The people therefore renounce the family of David, stone to

death Adoram, who came to receive their tribute, and make

Jeroboam king; none cleaving to Rehoboam but the tribes of

Judah and Benjamin, 16-20.

Rehoboam comes to Jerusalem, and assembles all the fighting men

of Judah and Benjamin, and finds the number to be one hundred

and eighty thousand; and with these he purposes to reduce the

men of Israel to his allegiance, but is forbidden by the

Prophet Shemaiah, 21-24.

Jeroboam builds Shechem in Mount Ephraim and Penuel, 25.

And lest the people should be drawn away from their allegiance

to him by going up to Jerusalem to worship, he makes two golden

calves, and sets them up, one in Dan, the other in Beth-el, and

the people worship them, 26-30.

He makes priests of the lowest of the people, and establishes

the fifteenth day of the eighth month as a feast to his new

gods; makes offerings, and burns incense, 31-33.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII

Verse 1 Kings 12:1. Rehoboam went to Shechem — Rehoboam was probably the only son of Solomon; for although he had a thousand wives, he had not the blessing of a numerous offspring; and although he was the wisest of men himself, his son was a poor, unprincipled fool. Had Solomon kept himself within reasonable bounds in matrimonial affairs, he would probably have had more children; and such as would have had common sense enough to discern the delicacy of their situation, and rule according to reason and religion.