Rehoboam’s Reign and Death

(1 Kings 14:21–24)

Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. [He was] forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. 14 And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

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Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, [are] they not written in the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies? There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days. 16 And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah[fn] reigned in his place. 13