1 Kings 12:1

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And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

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  • 2 Chr 10:1-9 : 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; 11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes. 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day. 13 And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men, 14 But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes. 15 So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. 16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents. 17 But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah. 18 Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.
  • Ps 60:6 : 6 God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.
  • Acts 7:16 : 16 And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
  • Gen 12:6 : 6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.
  • Gen 33:18-19 : 18 So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town. 19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.
  • Josh 20:7 : 7 So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
  • Josh 24:1 : 1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
  • Josh 24:32 : 32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.
  • Judg 9:1 : 1 Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,
  • Judg 9:6 : 6 And all the townsmen of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and went and made Abimelech their king, by the oak of the pillar in Shechem.
  • 1 Kgs 11:43 : 43 And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Solomon went to rest with his fathers and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.

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  • 2 Chr 10:1-3
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    1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.

    2And 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.

    3And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

  • 1 Kgs 12:2-6
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    2And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

    3And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

    4Your 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.

    5And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

    6Then 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?

  • 1 Kgs 12:20-23
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    20Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.

    21When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.

    22But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

    23Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:

  • 2 Chr 11:1-3
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    1And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

    2But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

    3Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

  • 2 Chr 12:1-2
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    1Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

    2Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,

  • 1 Kgs 12:12
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    12So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

  • 2 Chr 10:12-13
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    12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.

    13And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 12:17
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    17(But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)

  • 2 Chr 10:17
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    17But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 12:25-28
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    25Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.

    26And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:

    27If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.

    28So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

  • 2 Chr 12:16
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    16And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 14:25
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    25Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

  • 2 Chr 12:4-5
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    4And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

    5Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.

  • 2 Chr 10:5-6
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    5And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

    6Then 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?

  • 1 Sam 12:1
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    1And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you.

  • Judg 9:6
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    6And all the townsmen of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and went and made Abimelech their king, by the oak of the pillar in Shechem.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
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    5Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1
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    1Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 8:4
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    4Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,

  • 2 Chr 11:17
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    17So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
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    2And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

  • 2 Chr 11:22
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    22Rehoboam made Abijah, the son of Maacah, chief and ruler among his brothers, for it was his purpose to make him king.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
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    3So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

  • 2 Chr 11:13
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    13And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

  • 1 Kgs 14:29
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    29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
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    1Now Solomon was king over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
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    11And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

  • 1 Kgs 8:1
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    1Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

  • 1 Chr 11:1
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    1Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

  • 2 Sam 5:3
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    3So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:40
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    40And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.