And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
Rehoboam
1 Kings 12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem …
1 Chronicles 3:10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
Matthew 1:7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
Roboam
Shechem
Genesis 12:6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the …
Sichem
Genesis 37:12,13 And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem…
Joshua 20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem …
Joshua 24:1 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 …
all
1 Kings 4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
1 Chronicles 12:38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart …
And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
thy father
1 Samuel 8:11-18 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign …
1 Kings 12:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous …
Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given …
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 …
grievous
Exodus 1:13,14 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor…
Exodus 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: …
1 Kings 4:20,25 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, …
1 Kings 9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no slaves: but they …
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?
took counsel
Job 12:12,13 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 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that listens to …
Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Proverbs 27:10 Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go …
Jeremiah 42:2-5,20 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech you, our supplication …
What counsel
2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest …
2 Samuel 17:5,6 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear …
And they spake unto 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.
But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
he forsook
2 Chronicles 25:15,16 Why the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent …
2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai …
Proverbs 1:25 But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a …
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 10:2,3,16 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left…
the young men It was a custom in different countries to educate with the heir to the throne, young noblemen of nearly the same age. This, as Calmet observes, answered two great and important ends:
And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?
And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
Thus shalt
2 Samuel 17:7-13 And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given …
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Isaiah 19:11-13 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors …
My little finger. `My weakness,' says the Targumist, `shall be stronger than the might of my father.'
1 Kings 12:10,11 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke to him, saying, …
Proverbs 10:14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs 13:16 Every prudent man deals with knowledge: but a fool lays open his folly.
Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
Proverbs 18:6,7 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes…
Proverbs 28:25 He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife: but he that puts his …
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
my father
2 Chronicles 10:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease you somewhat …
put [heb] laded
I will put
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 …
Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given …
Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, …
Jeremiah 28:13,14 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus said the LORD; You have broken …
Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in …
scorpions
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give to you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and …
Revelation 9:3,5,10 And there came out of the smoke locusts on the earth: and to them …
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.
And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
answered
Genesis 42:7,30 And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself strange …
Exodus 10:28 And Pharaoh said to him, Get you from me, take heed to yourself, …
1 Samuel 25:10,11 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and …
1 Kings 20:6-11 Yet I will send my servants to you to morrow about this time, and …
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
forsook
2 Chronicles 10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel …
Proverbs 19:27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the …
And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
the advice
2 Chronicles 22:4,5 Why he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab…
Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the …
Daniel 6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, …
My father
2 Kings 10:10,11 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of …
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore …
Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall …
Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the …
Ecclesiastes 10:16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat …
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 …
So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
the king
Isaiah 30:12,13 Why thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, …
the cause
2 Chronicles 25:16-20 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …
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 …
1 Samuel 2:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if …
1 Kings 12:15,24 Why the king listened not to the people; for the cause was from the …
1 Kings 22:20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and …
Isaiah 19:14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in the middle thereof: and …
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 the Lord
1 Kings 11:29-39 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, …
John 12:37-39 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed …
John 19:24,32-36 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast …
Ahijah
2 Chronicles 9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not …
1 Kings 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take you ten pieces: for thus said the LORD, …
And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
What portion
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
1 Kings 12:16,17 So when all Israel saw that the king listened not to them, the people …
the son
1 Samuel 20:27,30,31 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the …
1 Samuel 22:7,9,13 Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites…
David
2 Samuel 7:15,16 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, …
1 Kings 11:13,34-39 However, I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one …
1 Chronicles 17:14 But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom for ever: and …
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 9:6,7 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government …
Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a …
Jeremiah 33:20,21,25,26 Thus said the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and …
Ezekiel 37:24,25 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall …
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, …
Luke 1:32,33 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and …
Luke 19:14,27 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, …
Acts 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an …
1 Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the …
So all Israel
2 Chronicles 10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
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, …
John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
John 7:53 And every man went to his own house.
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
