2 Chronicles 10:3

in 2 Chronicles 10

So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spake to Rehoboam, saying,

KJV

And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

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Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

Jeroboam and all Israel came

on 2 Chronicles 10:3-5

The tribes state their grievance in one clause, ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, naming the forced labor and taxation that built the temple and Solomon's court. Rehoboam asks three days, a delay that reads as prudence but becomes the space in which he changes counselors. Nothing in the request itself is rebellion; it is a petition a wise king could have answered without losing half a kingdom.

The words behind it

11 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.

Hebrew	Sound	Meaning	Word study	In the Bible
וַֽיִּשְׁלְחוּ֙	vaiyishlechu	and people sent	H7971 →	845 times
וַיִּקְרְאוּ־	vaiyikreu-	and they summoned	H7121 →	733 times
ל֔וֹ	lo	<to> him
וַיָּבֹ֥א	vaiyavo'	and he came	H935 →	2568 times
יָרָבְעָ֖ם	yaraveam	Jeroboam	H3379 →	104 times
וְכָל־	vekhol	and all	H3605 →	5413 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	yisrael	Israel	H3478 →	2507 times
וַֽיְדַבְּר֔וּ	vaydaberu	and they spoke	H1696 →	1141 times
אֶל־	ʾel-	to	H413 →	5510 times
רְחַבְעָ֖ם	rechavam	Rehoboam	H7346 →	50 times
לֵאמֹֽר׃	lemor	<to> saying	H559 →	5305 times