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1 Kings 12 1-1 Kings 12 20
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about it, for he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon’s presence, Jeroboam stayed in Egypt.They summoned him, and Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam:“ Your father made our yoke difficult. You, therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”Rehoboam replied,“ Go home for three days and then return to me.” So the people left.Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking,“ How do you advise me to respond to these people?”They replied,“ Today if you will be a servant to these people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and served him.He asked them,“ What message do you advise that we send back to these people who said to me,‘ Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”Then the young men who had grown up with him told him,“ This is what you should say to these people who said to you,‘ Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us!’ This is what you should tell them:‘ My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!Although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’”So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered:“ Return to me on the third day.”Then the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice the elders had given himand spoke to them according to the young men’s advice:“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events came from the Lord to carry out His word, which the Lord had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents; David, now look after your own house! So Israel went to their tents,but Rehoboam reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to get into the chariot and flee to Jerusalem.Israel is in rebellion against the house of David until today.When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.
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Joshua 20:7
So they designated Kedesh in the hill country of Naphtali in Galilee, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba( that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
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Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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Matthew 1:7
Solomon fathered Rehoboam, Rehoboam fathered Abijah, Abijah fathered Asa,
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1 Kings 4 1
King Solomon ruled over Israel,
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Joshua 24:1
Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and summoned Israel’s elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God.
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1 Chronicles 12 38
All these warriors, lined up in battle formation, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of Israel was also of one mind to make David king.
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Judges 9:1
Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and spoke to them and to all his maternal grandfather’s clan, saying,
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Genesis 37:12-13
His brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem.Israel said to Joseph,“ Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.”“ I’m ready,” Joseph replied.
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1 Chronicles 3 10
Solomon’s son was Rehoboam; his son was Abijah, his son Asa, his son Jehoshaphat,
