2 Chronicles 10:3

The Israelite leaders sent for him. Jereboam and all the Israelites went to talk with Rehoboam.

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In The King James Version

And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

In Context

2Jeroboam, son of Nebat, was still in Egypt when he heard about this. (He had run away to Egypt to escape from King Solomon and was living there.)

4“Your father placed a heavy burden on us,” they told him. “But now if you lighten the load your father imposed and the heavy demands he laid on us, we will serve you.”

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Cross References

1 Kings 12:3The Israelite leaders sent for him. Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israelites went to talk with Rehoboam.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 10:2-12

Rehoboam Succeeds Solomon. ( b. c. 975.) 1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. 3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying, 4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his… Read the whole commentary →

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