1 Kings 12:1
Good News Translation
Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all the people of northern Israel had gathered to make him king.

New Revised Standard Version
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

Contemporary English Version
Rehoboam went to Shechem where everyone was waiting to crown him king.

New American Bible
Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come to make him king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.

Rehoboam

1 Kings 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, his father; and Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 10:1 And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled, to make him king.

Shechem

Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

Sichem

Genesis 33:18,19 And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town. . . .

Joshua 20:7 And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of mount Nephtali, and Sichem in mount Ephraim, and Cariath-Arbe, the same is Hebron in the mountain of Juda.

Joshua 24:1,32 And Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem, and called for the ancients, and the princes and the judges, and the masters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord: . . .

Judges 9:1 And Abimelech, the son of Jerobaal, went to Sichem, to his mother's brethren, and spoke to them, and to all the kindred of his mother's father, saying:

Psalm 60:6 God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

Acts 7:16 And they were translated into Sichem and were laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, the son of Sichem.

Sychem

Context
Rebellion Against Rehoboam
1And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.2But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of Egypt.…
Cross References
Judges 9:6
And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the families of the city of Mello: and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak that stood in Sichem.

2 Chronicles 10:1
And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled, to make him king.

Jeremiah 41:5
There came some from Sichem, and from Silo, and from Samaria, fourscore men, with their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and mourning: and they had offerings and incense in their hand, to offer in the house of the Lord.

1 Kings 11:43
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