And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
Rehoboam
1 Kings 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of …
2 Chronicles 10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come …
Shechem
Genesis 12:6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the …
Sichem
Genesis 33:18,19 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land …
Joshua 20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem …
Joshua 24:1,32 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called …
Judges 9:1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's …
Psalm 60:6 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, …
Acts 7:16 And were carried over into Sychem…
Sychem
And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
our yoke
1 Kings 4:7,20,22,23,25 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals …
1 Kings 9:15,22,23 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for …
1 Samuel 8:11-18 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign …
2 Chronicles 10:4,5 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease you somewhat …
Matthew 11:29,30 Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in …
Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them …
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his …
And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
consulted
2 Samuel 16:20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
2 Samuel 17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear …
Job 12:12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Proverbs 27:10 Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go …
Jeremiah 42:2-5 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech you, our supplication …
Jeremiah 43:2 Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, …
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
2 Chronicles 10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel …
2 Chronicles 25:15,16 Why the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent …
Proverbs 1:2-5,25,30 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding…
Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Proverbs 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise …
Ecclesiastes 10:2,3 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left…
And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
I will add
Exodus 1:13,14 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor…
Exodus 5:5-9,18 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and …
1 Samuel 8:18 And you shall cry out in that day because of your king which you …
2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; …
Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, …
Jeremiah 27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king …
Jeremiah 28:13,14 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus said the LORD; You have broken …
but I will chastise Should you rebel or become disaffected, my father's {whip} shall be a {scorpion} in my hand. His was {chastisement}, mine shall be {punishment}. Celsius and Hiller conjecture that {akrabbim} denotes a thorny kind of shrub, whose prickles are of a venomous nature, called by the Arabs {scorpion thorns}, from the exquisite pain which they inflict. But the Chaldee renders it {margenin}, and the Syriac {moragyai}, i.e., () scourges; and in the parallel place of Chronicles the Arabic has {saut, a scourge}. Isidore, and after him Calmet and others, assert that the {scorpion} was a sort of severe {whip}, the lashes of which were armed with knots or points that sunk into and tore the flesh.
scorpions
1 Kings 12:14 And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My …
Ezekiel 2:6 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of …
Revelation 9:3-10 And there came out of the smoke locusts on the earth: and to them …
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
answered
1 Kings 20:6-11 Yet I will send my servants to you to morrow about this time, and …
Genesis 42:7,30 And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself strange …
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to …
Exodus 10:28 And Pharaoh said to him, Get you from me, take heed to yourself, …
Judges 12:1-6 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, …
1 Samuel 20:10,30,31 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if your father …
1 Samuel 25:10,11 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and …
2 Samuel 19:43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have …
Proverbs 10:11,32 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers …
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 18:23 The poor uses entreaties; but the rich answers roughly.
Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool …
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
roughly [heb] hardly
Genesis 16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your maid is in your hand; do to …
forsook
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
the counsel
2 Chronicles 22:4,5 Why he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab…
Esther 1:16-21 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the …
Esther 2:2-4 Then said the king's servants that ministered to him, Let there be …
Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the …
Isaiah 19:11-13 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors …
Daniel 6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, …
My father made
1 Kings 12:10,11 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke to him, saying, …
Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore …
Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the …
James 3:14-18 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, …
James 4:1,2 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …
Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
the cause The cause of all this confusion and anarchy was Rehoboam's folly, cruelty, and despotic tyranny, and this was certainly not `from the Lord,' nor does the original text speak this doctrine. See an elucidation of a similar passage at
2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he …
1 Kings 12:24 Thus said the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers …
1 Kings 22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth …
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD …
Judges 14:4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that …
2 Chronicles 10:15 So the king listened not to the people: for the cause was of God, …
2 Chronicles 22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for …
2 Chronicles 25:16,20 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …
Psalm 5:10 Destroy you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast …
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? …
Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge …
Acts 4:28 For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.
that he might
1 Kings 11:11,29-38 Why the LORD said to Solomon, For as much as this is done of you, …
1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is …
2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai …
2 Kings 9:36 Why they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word …
2 Kings 10:10 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of …
Isaiah 14:13-17 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will …
Isaiah 46:10,11 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the …
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and …
John 19:23,24,28,29,32-37 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, …
Acts 3:17 And now, brothers, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did …
Acts 13:27-29 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not…
So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
What portion
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
2 Chronicles 10:16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the …
to your tents
1 Kings 22:17,36 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered on the hills, as sheep that …
now see
1 Kings 11:13,34,36,39 However, I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one …
2 Samuel 7:15,16 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, …
Psalm 2:1-6 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing…
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath …
Psalm 89:29-37 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the …
Psalm 132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp …
Isaiah 7:2,6,7 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate …
Isaiah 9:6,7 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government …
Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will raise to David …
Jeremiah 33:15,16,21 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness …
Luke 19:14,27 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, …
So Israel
Judges 8:35 Neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, …
2 Samuel 15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men …
2 Samuel 16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, …
But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
Adoram
1 Kings 4:6 And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda …
1 Kings 5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month …
Adoniram
2 Samuel 20:24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
2 Chronicles 10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the …
Hadoram
all Israel
Exodus 17:4 And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, What shall I do to this people? …
Numbers 14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones…
2 Chronicles 24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the …
Acts 5:26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without …
Acts 7:57,58 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and …
made speed [heb] strengthened himself
flee to Jerusalem
1 Kings 20:18-20 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; …
Proverbs 28:1,2 The wicked flee when no man pursues: but the righteous are bold as a lion…
Amos 2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked …
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
Shemaiah
2 Chronicles 11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
2 Chronicles 12:5,7 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of …
the man
1 Kings 13:1,4,5,11 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of …
1 Kings 17:18,24 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O you man of …
Deuteronomy 33:1 And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed …
2 Kings 4:16,22,25,27 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, you …
1 Timothy 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, …
Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
Ye shall not go up
Numbers 14:42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that you be not smitten …
2 Chronicles 11:4 Thus said the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers: …
2 Chronicles 25:7,8 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army …
2 Chronicles 28:9-13 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he …
for this thing
1 Kings 12:15 Why the king listened not to the people; for the cause was from the …
1 Kings 11:29-38 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, …
Hosea 8:4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and …
They hearkened
2 Chronicles 25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him …
2 Chronicles 28:13-15 And said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here: for whereas …
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
said in his heart
Psalm 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, …
Mark 2:6-8 But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning …
Luke 7:39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spoke within …
Now shall
1 Kings 11:38 And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and …
1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul…
2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness …
Isaiah 7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's …
Jeremiah 38:18-21 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then …
John 11:47-50 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and …
John 12:10,11,19 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death…
Acts 4:16,17 Saying, What shall we do to these men…
If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
go up
1 Kings 8:29,30,44 That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even …
1 Kings 11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for …
Deuteronomy 12:5-7,14 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …
Deuteronomy 16:2,6 You shall therefore sacrifice the passover to the LORD your God, …
and they shall
Genesis 12:12,13 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, …
Genesis 26:7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She …
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the …
1 Corinthians 1:19,20 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will …
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
took counsel
1 Kings 12:8,9 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, …
Exodus 1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it …
Isaiah 30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, said the LORD, that take counsel, …
two calves of gold He invented a political religion, and instituted feasts in his own times, different from those appointed by Jehovah; gave the people certain objects of adoration, and pretended to think that it would be both inconvenient and oppressive to them to go up to Jerusalem to worship. These calves were doubtless of the same kind as the calf which was set up by Aaron; and it is remarkable, that in pointing them out to the people he should use the same words that Aaron used on that occasion, when they must have heard what terrible judgments fell upon their forefathers for this idolatry. Solomon's idolatry, however, had prepared the people for Jeroboam's abominations.
Exodus 20:4 You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any …
Deuteronomy 4:14-18 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments…
2 Kings 10:29 However, from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel …
2 Kings 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made …
2 Chronicles 11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, …
Hosea 8:4-7 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and …
Hosea 10:5,6 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: …
It is too much
Isaiah 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not …
2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants …
behold
Exodus 32:4,8 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving …
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
Beth-el
Genesis 12:8 And he removed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and …
Genesis 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that …
Genesis 35:1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and …
Hosea 4:15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and …
Dan
Genesis 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed …
Deuteronomy 34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, …
Judges 18:29-31 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their …
Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was …
2 Kings 10:29 However, from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel …
Jeremiah 8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled …
Amos 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, …
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
an house
1 Kings 13:24,32 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and …
Deuteronomy 24:15 At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go …
Ezekiel 16:25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have …
Hosea 12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice …
priests
1 Kings 13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made …
Numbers 3:10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on …
2 Kings 17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves of the lowest of …
2 Chronicles 11:14,15 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came …
2 Chronicles 13:9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, …
Ezekiel 44:6-8 And you shall say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, …
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
offered upon the altar. or, went up to the altar
1 Kings 12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth …
in the month
Numbers 15:39 And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and …
Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with …
Isaiah 29:13 Why the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their …
Matthew 15:6 And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have …
Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which …
he offered
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of …
1 Samuel 13:12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now on me to Gilgal, …
2 Chronicles 26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down …
and burn incense [heb] to burn incense
