Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
Holman Bible
Then Rehoboam
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
Bible in Basic English
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together 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.
Themes
Government » Monarchical » By solomon
Government » God in » In dividing the jewish nation into two different countries
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » Rehoboam (first part of his reign)
Rehoboam » Refuses to reform abuses
Shechem » Also called sychar, a city of refuge in mount ephraim » Rehoboam crowned at
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 12:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Appeal To Rehoboam
1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it (now he was yet in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;
Phrases
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:1-19
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Genesis 33:18-19
And Jacob came safely to the city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.
Joshua 20:7
And they hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, in the hill-country of Judah.
Joshua 24:1
And 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.
Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Judges 9:1
Now Abim'elech the son of Jerubba'al went to Shechem to his mother's kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,
Judges 9:6
And all the citizens of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abim'elech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.
1 Kings 11:43
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Psalm 60:6
God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Acts 7:16
and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.