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Rebellion against Rehoboam

1 Kings 12:1

In 11 translations

BSB
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
KJV
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
WEB
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
ASV
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
LSV
And Rehoboam goes to Shechem, for all Israel has come to Shechem to make him king.
YLT
And Rehoboam goeth to Shechem, for to Shechem hath all Israel come to make him king.
DBY
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
DRC
And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.
GNV
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for al Israel were come to Sheche, to make him king
JPS
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
LXXE
And king Roboam goes to Sikima; for all Israel were coming to Sikima to make him king.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ רְחַבְעָ֖ם שְׁכֶ֑ם כִּ֥י שְׁכֶ֛ם בָּ֥א כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְהַמְלִ֥יךְ אֹתֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ πορεύεται βασιλεὺς Ῥοβοὰμ εἰς Σίκιμα, ὅτι εἰς Σίκιμα ἤρχοντο πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ βασιλεῦσαι αὐτόν.

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  • Judges 9:6Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.
  • 2 Chronicles 10:1–19Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon. So they sent for Jeroboam, and he…
  • Psalms 60:6God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.
  • Joshua 20:7So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
  • Judges 9:1Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
  • Genesis 33:18–19After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city. And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons…
  • Joshua 24:1Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
  • Genesis 12:6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
  • 1 Kings 11:43And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
  • Joshua 24:32And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.…
  • Acts 7:16Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

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