1 Kings 12:1

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Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all of Israel had come to Shechem to crown him king.

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  • 2 Chr 10:1-9 : 1 Rehoboam went to Shechem because all Israel had gathered there to make him king. 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this—he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon—he returned from Egypt. 3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he came with all Israel. Together, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, 4 "Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke your father placed on us, and we will serve you." 5 Rehoboam answered, "Come back to me in three days." So the people went away. 6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime, asking, "How would you advise me to answer these people?" 7 They replied, "If you are kind to these people, please them, and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants." 8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. 9 He asked them, "What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?" 10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, "Tell these people who have said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy; now make it lighter': 'My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.' 11 My father laid a heavy yoke on you; I will make it even heavier. My father disciplined you with whips; I will discipline you with scorpions." 12 On the third day, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, "Come back to me in three days." 13 The king answered them harshly. Rejecting the advice of the elders, 14 he followed the advice of the young men and said, "My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father disciplined you with whips; I will discipline you with scorpions." 15 So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat. 16 When all Israel realized that the king had not listened to them, they responded to the king, saying, "What share do we have in David? What inheritance is there for us in the son of Jesse? Every man to your tents, Israel! Now take care of your own house, David!" So all the Israelites returned to their homes. 17 But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam continued to reign over them. 18 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and flee to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
  • Ps 60:6 : 6 You have given a banner to those who fear you, to be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
  • Acts 7:16 : 16 Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor at Shechem.
  • Gen 12:6 : 6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the great tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were in the land.
  • Gen 33:18-19 : 18 Jacob arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, after his journey from Paddan Aram, and he camped near the city. 19 He bought the plot of land where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
  • Josh 20:7 : 7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
  • Josh 24:1 : 1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders of Israel, their leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God.
  • Josh 24:32 : 32 The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of silver. It became an inheritance for Joseph's descendants.
  • Judg 9:1 : 1 Abimelech, son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to visit his mother’s relatives. He spoke to them and to the entire family of his mother’s household, saying:
  • Judg 9:6 : 6 Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-Millo gathered together. They went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar in Shechem.
  • 1 Kgs 11:43 : 43 Then Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, his father. And Rehoboam, his son, reigned in his place.

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  • 2 Chr 10:1-3
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    1Rehoboam went to Shechem because all Israel had gathered there to make him king.

    2When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this—he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon—he returned from Egypt.

    3So they sent for Jeroboam, and he came with all Israel. Together, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 12:2-6
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    2When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this—he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon—he remained in Egypt.

    3They sent for him, and Jeroboam and the entire assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam.

    4They said to him, "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he placed on us, and we will serve you."

    5Rehoboam replied, "Come back to me in three days," so the people departed.

    6Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was alive. He asked, "How do you advise me to answer these people?"

  • 1 Kgs 12:20-23
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    20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent for him and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.

    21When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—a total of 180,000 able young men to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.

    22But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:

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

  • 2 Chr 11:1-3
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    1When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he gathered the house of Judah and Benjamin—one hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors—to go to war against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

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

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

  • 2 Chr 12:1-2
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    1When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he became strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel followed him.

    2In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, attacked Jerusalem because they had been unfaithful to the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 12:12
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    12Three days later, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had instructed them, saying, "Come back to me on the third day."

  • 2 Chr 10:12-13
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    12On the third day, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, "Come back to me in three days."

    13The king answered them harshly. Rejecting the advice of the elders,

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13Then Solomon returned from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem, and he reigned over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 12:17
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    17But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.

  • 2 Chr 10:17
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    17But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam continued to reign over them.

  • 1 Kgs 12:25-28
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    25Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

    26Jeroboam said to himself, "The kingdom will now likely return to the house of David.

    27If these people go up to worship at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.

    28After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.

  • 2 Chr 12:16
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    16Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Abijah succeeded him as king.

  • 1 Kgs 14:25
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    25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 12:4-5
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    4He captured the fortified cities of Judah and advanced as far as Jerusalem.

    5Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who had gathered in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, "This is what the LORD says: 'You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.'"

  • 2 Chr 10:5-6
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    5Rehoboam answered, "Come back to me in three days." So the people went away.

    6Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime, asking, "How would you advise me to answer these people?"

  • 1 Sam 12:1
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    1Then Samuel said to all Israel, 'Here I am; I have listened to you in everything you have said to me, and I have set a king over you.'

  • Judg 9:6
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    6Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-Millo gathered together. They went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar in Shechem.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
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    5Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1
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    1The king sent messengers, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 8:4
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    4Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

  • 2 Chr 11:17
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    17They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, walking in the ways of David and Solomon during those three years.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
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    2Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders and heads of fathers’ households throughout Israel.

  • 2 Chr 11:22
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    22Rehoboam appointed Abijah, son of Maacah, as the chief and leader among his brothers, intending to make him king.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
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    3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. They anointed David king over Israel, as the LORD had said through Samuel.

  • 2 Chr 11:13
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    13The priests and Levites throughout Israel took their stand with Rehoboam out of all their territories.

  • 1 Kgs 14:29
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    29As for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and everything he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
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    1King Solomon ruled over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
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    11Whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would carry the shields, and then they would return them to the guardroom.

  • 1 Kgs 8:1
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    1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the ancestral houses of the Israelites, before him in Jerusalem to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD from the City of David, which is Zion.

  • 1 Chr 11:1
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    1Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron and said, "We are your own flesh and blood.

  • 2 Sam 5:3
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    3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. Then they anointed David king over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:40
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    40Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt. He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.