1 Kings 12:1 “Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make h…”

1 Kings 12:1

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for al Israel were come to Sheche, to make him king

Darby Translation

And Rehoboam 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 hath all Israel come to make him king.

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“Rehoboam”

2 Chronicles 10:1–19 1 Kings 11:43

2 Chronicles 10:1–19 · BSB

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

1 Kings 11:43 · BSB

And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

“Shechem”

Genesis 12:6

Genesis 12:6 · BSB

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

“Sichem”

Joshua 20:7 Joshua 24:1 Joshua 24:32 Judges 9:1 Psalm 60:6 Acts 7:16

Joshua 20:7 · BSB

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.

Joshua 24:1 · BSB

Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

Joshua 24:32 · BSB

And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So…

Judges 9:1 · BSB

Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

Psalm 60:6 · BSB

God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

Acts 7:16 · BSB

Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

Also

Judges 9:6

Judges 9:6 · BSB

Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.

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