1 Kings 12:1
What does 1 Kings 12:1 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Kings 12:1 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And Rehoboam goeth to Shechem, for to Shechem hath all Israel come to make him king.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt,
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 10:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
- Joshua 24:1
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
- 1 Kings 11:43
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
- Acts 7:16
and they were carried over unto Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver of the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
- Psalms 60:6
God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
- Joshua 20:7
And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
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