1st Kings Chapter 12 verse 1 Holy Bible
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
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And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
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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 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
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And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
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Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
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And Rehoboam goeth to Shechem, for to Shechem hath all Israel come to make him king.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - And Rehoboam [see on 1 Kings 11:26, and compare the name Αὐρύδημος. The name possibly indicates Solomon's ambitious hopes respecting him. The irony of history alone emphasizes it. Ecclesiastes 2:18, 19 would seem to show that Solomon himself had misgivings as to his son's abilities. "As the greatest persons cannot give themselves children, so the wisest cannot give their children wisdom" (Hall). His mother was Naamah, an Ammonitess (1 Kings 14:31). It would appear from 1 Kings 14:21, and 2 Chronicles 12:13, that he was 41 years of age at his accession. But this is, to say the least, doubtful. For (1) he is described in 2 Chronicles 13:7 as being "young (נַעַר) and tender hearted." (2) The LXX. addition to 1 Kings 12:24 says he was sixteen; υἱὸς ω}ν ἑκκαίδεκα ἐτῶν ἐν τῶ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν. (3) It is hardly probable that Solomon, who was himself "young and tender" at his father's death, should then have had a son a year old. . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) All Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.--In the case of David, we find that, when he was made king over Israel, "he made a league" with the elders of Israel (2Samuel 5:3), apparently implying a less absolute royalty than that to which he had been anointed, without conditions, over the house of Judah (2Samuel 2:4); and in his restoration after the death of Absalom, there appears to be some recognition of a right of distinct action on the part of the men of Israel in relation to the kingdom (2Samuel 19:9-10; 2Samuel 19:41-43; 2Samuel 20:1-2). Even in the coronation of Solomon, we find distinction made between royalty "over all Israel and over Judah." (See 1Kings 1:35; and comp. 1Kings 4:1.) Accordingly, Rehoboam seems to succeed without question to the throne of Judah, but to need to be "made king" by the rest of Israel, with apparently some right on their part to require conditions before acceptance. It is significant, however, that this ceremonial is fixed, not at Jerusalem, but at Shechem, the chief city of Ephraim, of ancient dignity, even from patriarchal times, as of singular beauty and fertility of position, which became, as a matter of course, the capital of the northern kingdom after the disruption. Perhaps, in this arrangement, which seems to have had no precedent, there was some omen of revolution. . . .
