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2 Chronicles 10:5

in 2 Chronicles 10

Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

KJV

And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 10

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

So they sent for Jeroboam

on 2 Chronicles 10:3-5

The tribes state their grievance, “Your father put a heavy yoke on us,” naming forced labor and taxation that built the temple and the court. They offer service in return, “we will serve you”. Rehoboam asks for three days, and he spends them changing counselors.

This site's exposition

Come back to me in three days

Three days gave Rehoboam time for counsel. He spent them hearing two councils, the elders of verse 6 and the young men of verse 8. Clarke finds the chapter almost word for word the same as 1 Kings 12:1-19, and Barnes sees only slight verbal differences.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֲלֵהֶ֗םto them

    ʾalehemH413 →5510 times

  • ע֛וֹדagain

    odH5750 →490 times

  • שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁתthree

    sheloshetH7969 →432 times

  • יָמִ֖יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • וְשׁ֣וּבוּand return

    veshuvuH7725 →1056 times

  • אֵלָ֑יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • וַיֵּ֖לֶךְand it went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • הָעָֽם׃ סthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

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

The walk

6 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

    Proverbs 3:28

    Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 19:13

      You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

    • Deuteronomy 24:12–15

      If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

    • 2 Corinthians 8:11

      Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.

    • Ecclesiastes 9:10

      Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

    • Ecclesiastes 11:6

      Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.

  • Through

    1 Kings 12:5

    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 12:12

      After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.