¹⁷ But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.

Rehoboam Secures His Kingdom

11 ^(A)When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

¹⁷ But Rehoboam reigned over ^(A)the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.

³⁶ Yet to his son ^(A)I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have ^(B)a lamp before me in Jerusalem, ^(C)the city where I have chosen to put my name.