Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam 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,
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.
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
Yalak
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 12:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Appeal To Rehoboam
1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king. 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:1-19
Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)
Genesis 33:18-19
After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.
Joshua 20:7
So they selected 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
Joshua assembled all the Israelite tribes at Shechem. He summoned Israel's elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and they appeared before God.
Joshua 24:32
The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.
Judges 9:1
Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother's relatives. He said to them and to his mother's entire extended family,
Judges 9:6
All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar in Shechem.
1 Kings 11:43
Then Solomon passed away and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.
Psalm 60:6
God has spoken in his sanctuary: "I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem; the Valley of Succoth I will measure off.
Acts 7:16
and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.