2 Chronicles 10:1
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel was coming to Shechem to make him king.
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And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
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Genesis 12:6Abram passed through the land as far as Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites lived in the land.
Joshua 20:7So the Israelites selected Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same as Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
Judges 9:1Abimelech son of Jerub Baal went to his mother's relatives at Shechem and he said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,
1 Kings 12:1Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel was coming to Shechem to make him king.
1 Chronicles 12:38All these soldiers, equipped for battle, came to Hebron with firm intentions to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of Israel were in agreement to make David king also.
Matthew 1:7Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of 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 →