Bible Cross References
Rehoboam
1 Kings 11:43
And Solomon rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 10:1-19
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And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
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And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it, where he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, that Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
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And they sent for him and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
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Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father and his heavy yoke which he has put on us, and we will serve you.
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So he said to them, Come back to me after three days. And the people departed.
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And King Rehoboam consulted the elders who stood before his father Solomon while he still lived, saying, How do you advise me to answer these people?
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And they spoke to him, saying, If you are kind to the people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever.
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But he rejected the counsel which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
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And he said to them, What advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, Lighten the yoke which your father had put on us?
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And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus you should speak to the people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us; thus you shall say to them: My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins!
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And now, whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions!
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So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, Come back to me the third day.
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And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the elders,
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and he spoke to them according to the counsel 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!
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So the king did not consent to the people; for the turn of events was from God, that Jehovah might fulfill His word, which He had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
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And when all Israel saw that the king did not consent to them, the people answered the king, saying: What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to your tents, O Israel! Now see to your own house, O David! And all Israel departed to their tents.
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But Rehoboam reigned over the children of Israel dwelling in the cities of Judah.
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And King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the labor force; but the sons of Israel stoned him with stones, and he died. So King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste to flee to Jerusalem.
19
Thus Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
Shechem
Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.
Sichem
Genesis 33:18
And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan; and he pitched his tent before the city.
Genesis 33:19
And he bought the parcel of land where he had pitched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
Joshua 20:7
So they appointed Kedesh in Galilee, in the mountains of Naphtali, Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and Kirjath Arba (which is Hebron) in the mountains of Judah.
Joshua 24:1
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders of Israel, their heads, their judges, and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the sons of Joseph.
Judges 9:1
Then Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
Psalm 60:6
God has spoken in His holiness: I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.
Acts 7:16
And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.