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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Rehoboam traveled to Shechem because all of Israel went there to install him as king.

A Conservative Version

And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel came 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.

Amplified

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And Rehoboam will go to Shechem, for to Shechem came all Israel to make him king.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

And Rehoboam went to Shechem. For all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Rehoboam goeth to Shechem, for to Shechem hath all Israel come to make him king.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רחבעם 
R@chab`am 
Usage: 50

ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

to Shechem
שׁכם 
Sh@kem 
שׁכם 
Sh@kem 
Usage: 49
Usage: 49

ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 12:1

Context Readings

Israel's Appeal To Rehoboam

1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king, 2 And, 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;

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:1-19

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

Genesis 12:6

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.

Genesis 33:18-19

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.

Joshua 20:7

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.

Joshua 24:1

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.

Joshua 24:32

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.

Judges 9:1

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,

Judges 9:6

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 Kings 11:43

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.

Psalm 60:6

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

Acts 7:16

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.

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