2 Chronicles 10:1
in 2 Chronicles 10Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
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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.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 10
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis 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
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.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
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.
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ | vaiyelekh | and he went | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| רְחַבְעָ֖ם | rechavam | Rehoboam | H7346 → | 50 times |
| שְׁכֶ֑מָה | shekhemah | Shechem towards | H7927 → | |
| כִּ֥י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| שְׁכֶ֛ם | shekhem | Shechem | H7927 → | |
| בָּ֥אוּ | bau | they had come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| כָל־ | khol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| לְהַמְלִ֥יךְ | lehamlikh | to make king | H4427 → | 348 times |
| אֹתֽוֹ׃ | ʾoto | <obj.> him | H853 → | 10935 times |
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 stopsEach 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 12:6Abram 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.
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.
- Deuteronomy 11:30
Through
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.
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.
- Joshua 21:11
Through
1 Chronicles 12:38All 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.”
- Genesis 49:8–10
About 2 Chronicles

Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonDivided kingdomRehoboamSolomon's son whose refusal of the elders' counsel at Shechem — answering the people with scorpions — tore ten tribes from the hou…
- PlaceCentral hill countryShechemThe city between Ebal and Gerizim where Abram built his first altar in the land, where Joshua set the people to choose whom they w…
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.
