2 Chronicles 10:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem. For all Israel came to Shechem to make him king.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 12:6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Joshua 20:7And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
Judges 9:1And 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,
1 Kings 12:1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel came to Shechem to make him king.
1 Chronicles 12:38All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
Matthew 1:7and Solomon begot Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa,
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 10:1
This chapter is copied almost verbatim from 1 Kings xii. 1-19 , where it was opened at large. Solomon's defection from God was not repeated, but the defection of the ten tribes from his family is, in this chapter, where we find, I. How foolish Rehoboam was in his treating with them, ver. 1 , 5-14 . II. How wicked the people were in complaining of Solomon ( ver. 2-4 ) and forsaking Rehoboam, ver. 16-19 . III. How just and righteous God was in all this, ver. 15 . His counsel was thereby fulfilled. With him are… Read the whole commentary →