Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
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,
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.
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 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 2 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
Phrases
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:1-19
Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
Genesis 33:18-19
Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
Joshua 20:7
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
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Joshua 24:32
They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Judges 9:1
Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
Judges 9:6
And all the lords of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
1 Kings 11:43
Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
Psalm 60:6
God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
Acts 7:16
and they were brought back to Shechem, and placed in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor in Shechem.