And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
Parallel translations
- WEB Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
- BSB Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
- NKJV And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.
- NASB Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
- NLT Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had gathered to make him king.
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Rehoboam goes to Shechem, where all Israel has gathered to make him king. The northern tribes' assembly signals their leverage over the new king.
Overview
Rather than being crowned automatically, Rehoboam must seek confirmation at Shechem, a site rich in covenant history. The gathering of all Israel shows that the northern tribes expect to be heard before pledging loyalty. This setting prepares for the confrontation over Solomon's heavy demands that will fracture the kingdom.
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- Judg 9:6And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
- 2 Chr 10:1–19And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
- Josh 24:1And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
- Gen 12:6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
- Josh 20:7And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
- Judg 9:1And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
- Josh 24:32And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
- 1 Kgs 11:43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
- Ps 60:6God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
- Gen 33:18–19And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
- Acts 7:16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
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