English Standard Version
2 Chronicles 10:1
1Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
2 Chronicles 10:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
- New International Version (NIV)Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had gathered to make him king.
Context of 2 Chronicles 10:1
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 2And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. 3And they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam,
Read all of 2 Chronicles 102 Chronicles 10:1 word by word
וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ רְחַבְעָ֖ם שְׁכֶ֑מָה כִּ֥י שְׁכֶ֛ם בָּ֥אוּ כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְהַמְלִ֥יךְ אֹתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 10:1
- 1 Kings 12:1Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
- 1 Chronicles 3:10The son of Solomon was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
- Matthew 1:7and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,
- Genesis 12:6Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
- Genesis 37:12Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.
- Joshua 20:7So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- Joshua 24:1Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
- Judges 9:1Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,
- 1 Kings 4:1King Solomon was king over all Israel,
- 1 Chronicles 12:38All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 10:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Rehoboam went to Shechem - This chapter is almost word for word the same as 1 Kings 12:1-19, to the notes on which the reader is referred.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-11Verses 1-11 The narrative of Kings (marginal reference) is repeated with only slight verbal differences.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The ten tribes revolt from Rehoboam. --Moderate counsels are wisest and best. Gentleness will do what violence will not do. Most people like to be accosted mildly. Good words cost only a little self-denial, yet they purchase great things. No more needs to be done to ruin men, than to leave them to their own pride and passion. Thus, whatever are the devices of men, God is doing his own work by all, and fulfilling the word which he has spoken. No man can…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1Shechem was in the center of the northern tribes' land. Rehoboam went there for confirmation, showing either weak national unity or the northern tribes' strength and influence. Rehoboam ruled from 931 to 913 BC.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-152Ch 10:1-15. Rehoboam Refusing the Old Men's Good Counsel. 1. Rehoboam went to Shechem--(See on 1Ki 12:1). This chapter is, with a few verbal alterations, the same as in 1Ki 12:1-19.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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