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Death of Rehoboam

13 So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.(A) 14 He did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.(B)

15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of the prophet Shemaiah and of the seer Iddo, recorded by genealogy? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.(C) 16 Rehoboam slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David, and his son Abijah succeeded him.(D)

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