¹³ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. ¹⁴ And he did that which was evil, because he set not his heart to seek Jehovah.

¹⁵ Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the ^[a]histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, ^[b]after the manner of genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. ¹⁶ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.