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1 Kings 12

1 Kings 12:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andh Rehoboam
Rchab`am (Hebrew #7346)
a people has enlarged; Rechabam, an Israelite king
KJV usage: Rehoboam.
Pronounce: rekh-ab-awm'
Origin: from 7337 and 5971
went
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
to Shechem
Shkem (Hebrew #7927)
ridge; Shekem, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Shechem.
Pronounce: shek-em'
Origin: the same as 7926
: for all Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
were come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
to Shechem
Shkem (Hebrew #7927)
ridge; Shekem, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Shechem.
Pronounce: shek-em'
Origin: the same as 7926
to make him king
malak (Hebrew #4427)
to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
KJV usage: consult, X indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root
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2 Chron. 10:1• 1And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. (2 Chron. 10:1)
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1-5:  The Israelites, assembled at Shechem to crown Rehoboam, by Jeroboam make a suit of relaxation unto him.
6-15:  Rehoboam, refusing the old men's counsel, answers them roughly.
16-20:  Ten tribes revolting, kill Adoram, and make Rehoboam flee.
21-24:  Rehoboam, raising an army, is forbidden by Shemaiah.
25:  Jeroboam strengthens himself by cities;
26-33:  and by the idolatry of the two calves.
Rehoboam.
1 Kings 11:43• 43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. (1 Kings 11:43)
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2 Chron. 10:1‑19• 1And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
 2And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it (now he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon) that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
 3And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam saying,
 4Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
 5And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed.
 6And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, How do ye advise to return answer to this people?
 7And they spoke to him saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
 8But he forsook the advice of the old men which they had given him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up with him, that stood before him.
 9And he said to them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me saying, Lighten the yoke which thy father put upon us?
 10And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him saying, Thus shalt thou say to the people who have spoken to thee saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and lighten thou it for us,--thus shalt thou say to them: My little finger is thicker than my father's loins;
 11and whereas my father laid a heavy yoke upon you, *I* will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but *I* will chastise you with scorpions.
 12And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed saying, Come again to me on the third day.
 13And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the advice of the old men,
 14and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but *I* will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but *I* will chastise you with scorpions.
 15So the king hearkened not to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Jehovah might give effect to his word, which he spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
 16And all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them; and the people answered the king saying, What portion have we in David? and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel. Now see to thine own house, David! And all Israel went to their tents.
 17But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
 18And king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the levy; but the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. And king Rehoboam hastened to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
 19And Israel rebelled against the house of David, unto this day. (2 Chron. 10:1‑19)
Shechem.
Gen. 12:6• 6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. (Gen. 12:6)
Sichem.
Gen. 33:18‑19• 18And Jacob came safely to the city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.
 19And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread his tent, of the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs. (Gen. 33:18‑19)
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Josh. 20:7• 7And they hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, in the hill-country of Judah. (Josh. 20:7)
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Josh. 24:1,32• 1And 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.
 32And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. (Josh. 24:1,32)
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Judg. 9:1• 1And Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brethren, and spoke to them, and to all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying, (Judg. 9:1)
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Psa. 60:6• 6God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. (Psa. 60:6)
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Acts 7:16• 16and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem. (Acts 7:16)
Sychem.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.