2 Chronicles 10:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.
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In The King James Version
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
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Cross References
Genesis 12:6And 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.
Joshua 20:7So 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.
Judges 9:1Now 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,
1 Kings 12:1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
1 Chronicles 12:38All these men of war, expert in ordering the fight, came to Hebron with the full purpose of making David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were united in their desire to make David king.
Matthew 1:7And the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; and the son of Rehoboam was Abijah; and the son of Abijah was 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 →