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1 Kings 14:20-22
New English Translation

20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away.[a] His son Nadab replaced him as king.

Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah

21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He[b] was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home.[c] His mother was an Ammonite woman[d] named Naamah.

22 Judah did evil in the sight of[e] the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:20 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
  2. 1 Kings 14:21 tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  3. 1 Kings 14:21 tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”
  4. 1 Kings 14:21 tn Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied by the gender of the word.
  5. 1 Kings 14:22 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
  6. 1 Kings 14:22 tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
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