2 Chronicles 10:1

Modern

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

Traditional

And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.

Literal

And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.

Latin

Profectus est autem Roboam in Sichem: illuc enim cunctus Israël convenerat ut constituerent eum regem.

Hebrew

English

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

Shechem was in the center of the northern tribes' land. Rehoboam went there for confirmation, showing either weak national unity or the northern tribes' strength and influence.
Rehoboam ruled from 931 to 913 BC.

Theme notes and profiles

1 Chronicles 12:38
All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David king.
Joshua 20:7
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
1 Chronicles 3:10
Solomon’s son was Rehoboam: Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
1 Kings 4:1
So King Solomon ruled over Israel,
Genesis 37:12–13
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
Matthew 1:7
Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.
1 Kings 12:1–20
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
Joshua 24:1
Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Judges 9:1
Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes Rehoboam: Son of Solomon, first king of Judah

Shechem: City in Canaan, later allotted to Ephraim