2 Chronicles 10:1
And Rechav'am went to Shechem, for to Shechem were kol Yisroel come to make him melech.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 Avram passed through the land unto the makom Shechem, unto Elon Moreh. And the Kena'ani was then in ha'aretz.
Joshua 20:7And they appointed Kedesh in the Galil in Har Naphtali and Shechem in Har Ephrayim, and Kiryat-Arba, which is Chevron, in Har Yehudah.
Judges 9:1And Avimelech ben Yeruba'al went to Shechem unto achei immo, and spoke with them, and with all the mishpakhat bais avi immo, saying,
1 Kings 12:1And Rechav'am went to Shechem; for kol Yisroel were come to Shechem to make him Melech.
1 Chronicles 12:38And on the other side of Yarden, of the Reuveni, and the Gadi, and of the half shevet (tribe) of Menasheh, with all manner of instruments of tzava for the milchamah, a hundred and twenty elef.
Matthew 1:7then Rechavam, Aviyah, 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 →