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2 Chronicles 10:1

in 2 Chronicles 10

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

KJV

And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 10

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

all Israel had gone there to make him king

on 2 Chronicles 10:1-2

Shechem carries its own history: Joshua renewed the covenant there in Joshua 24, and Abimelech was made king there in Judges 9. Jeroboam returns from Egypt, “where he had fled from King Solomon,” so Ahijah's chosen man is on the ground before the assembly meets.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Rehoboam 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.
The narrative of Kings (marginal reference) is repeated with only slight verbal differences.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king In Shechem, which was Jeroboam’s place, which was in the territory of Ephraim.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 10:1:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֥לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • רְחַבְעָ֖םRehoboam

    rechavamH7346 →50 times

  • שְׁכֶ֑מָהShechem towards

    shekhemahH7927 →

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • שְׁכֶ֛םShechem

    shekhemH7927 →

  • בָּ֥אוּthey had come

    bauH935 →2568 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לְהַמְלִ֥יךְto make king

    lehamlikhH4427 →348 times

  • אֹתֽוֹ׃<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 12:6

    Abram 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.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 11:30

      Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

    • Hebrews 11:9

      By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

  • Through

    Joshua 20:7

    So 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.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 21:11

      They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)

    • Luke 1:39

      In those days Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah,

    • 1 Chronicles 6:76

      And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee, Hammon, and Kiriathaim, together with their pasturelands.

    • Joshua 21:32

      And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three cities, together with their pasturelands.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 12:38

    All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 49:8–10

      Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

    • 1 Kings 8:61

      So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.