Rehoboam’s Last Days

¹³ King Rehoboam^(A) established his royal power in Jerusalem. Rehoboam 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 to put his name.^(B) Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. ¹⁴ Rehoboam did what was evil, because he did not determine in his heart to seek the Lord.^(C)

¹⁵ The events^(D) of Rehoboam’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the Events of the Prophet Shemaiah^(E) and of the Seer Iddo concerning genealogies.^(F) There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their reigns. ¹⁶ Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Abijah^[a](G) became king in his place.