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1Ki 14:21	Strong Concordance	And Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010] reigned [04427] in Judah [03063]. Rehoboam [07346] was forty [0705] and one [0259] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] seventeen [07651] [06240] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389], the city [05892] which the LORD [03068] did choose [0977] out of all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478], to put [07760] his name [08034] there. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Naamah [05279] an Ammonitess [05985].
	King James	And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
REHOBOAM'S WICKED REIGN. (Kg1 14:21-24) he reigned . . . in Jerusalem--Its particular designation as "the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there," seems given here, both as a reflection on the apostasy of the ten tribes, and as a proof of the aggravated wickedness of introducing idolatry and its attendant vices there. his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess--Her heathen extraction and her influence as queen mother are stated to account for Rehoboam's tendency to depart from the true religion. Led by the warning of the prophet (Kg1 12:23), as well as by the large immigration of Israelites into his kingdom (Kg1 12:17; Ch2 11:16), he continued for the first three years of his reign a faithful patron of true religion (Ch2 11:17). But afterwards he began and encouraged a general apostasy; idolatry became the prevailing form of worship, and the religious state of the kingdom in his reign is described by the high places, the idolatrous statues, the groves and impure rites that with unchecked license were observed in them. The description is suited to the character of the Canaanitish worship.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

REHOBOAM'S WICKED REIGN. (Kg1 14:21-24)

he reigned . . . in Jerusalem--Its particular designation as "the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there," seems given here, both as a reflection on the apostasy of the ten tribes, and as a proof of the aggravated wickedness of introducing idolatry and its attendant vices there.

his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess--Her heathen extraction and her influence as queen mother are stated to account for Rehoboam's tendency to depart from the true religion. Led by the warning of the prophet (Kg1 12:23), as well as by the large immigration of Israelites into his kingdom (Kg1 12:17; Ch2 11:16), he continued for the first three years of his reign a faithful patron of true religion (Ch2 11:17). But afterwards he began and encouraged a general apostasy; idolatry became the prevailing form of worship, and the religious state of the kingdom in his reign is described by the high places, the idolatrous statues, the groves and impure rites that with unchecked license were observed in them. The description is suited to the character of the Canaanitish worship.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
On the age of Rehoboam at his accession, see Kg1 12:8 note. The 17 years of his reign must have been complete, or a little more than complete, if Abijam ascended the throne in the "eighteenth" year of Jeroboam Kg1 15:1.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Reign of Rehoboam in Judah (compare 2 Chron 11:5-12:16). - Kg1 14:21. Rehoboam, who ascended the throne at the age of forty-one, was born a year before the accession of Solomon (see at Kg1 2:24). In the description of Jerusalem as the city chosen by the Lord (cf., Kg1 11:36) there is implied not so much an indirect condemnation of the falling away of the ten tribes, as the striking contrast to the idolatry of Rehoboam referred to in Kg1 14:23. The name of his mother is mentioned (here and in Kg1 14:31), not because she seduced the king to idolatry (Ephr. Syr.), but generally on account of the great influence which the queen-mother appears to have had both upon the king personally and upon his government, as we may infer from the fact that the mother's name is given in the case of every king of Judah (vid., Kg1 15:2, Kg1 15:13; Kg1 22:42, etc.). Kg1 14:22-24 The general characteristics of Rehoboam's reign are supplied and more minutely defined in the account in the Chronicles. According to 2 Chron 11:5-12:1, he appears to have been brought to reflection by the announcement of the prophet, that the falling away of the ten tribes had come from the Lord as a punishment for Solomon's idolatry (Kg1 12:23-24; Ch2 11:2-4); and in the first years of his reign to have followed the law of God with earnestness, and to have been occupied in the establishment of his government partly by the fortification of different cities (Ch2 11:5-12), and partly by setting in order his domestic affairs, placing his numerous sons, who were born of his many wives and concubines, in the fortified cities of the land, and thus providing for them, and naming Abijam as his successor (Ch2 11:18-22); while his kingdom was still further strengthened by the priests, Levites, and pious Israelites who emigrated to Judah and Jerusalem from the ten tribes (Ch2 11:13-17). But this good beginning only lasted three years (Ch2 11:17). When he thought that he had sufficiently fortified his kingdom, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel (i.e., all the covenant nation) with him (Ch2 12:1). "Judah did that which was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers (sc., under the Judges) had done with their sins." קנּא, to provoke to jealousy (Num 5:14), is to be explained, when it refers to God, from the fact that the relation in which God stood to His people was regarded under the figure of a marriage, in which Jehovah appears as the husband of the nation, who is angry at the unfaithfulness of his wife, i.e., at the idolatry of the nation. Compare the remarks on קנּא אל in the Comm. on Exo 20:5. Kg1 14:23 They also (the Judaeans as well as the Israelites) built themselves bamoth, altars of high places (see at Kg1 3:3), monuments and Ashera-idols. מצּבות are not actual images of gods, but stones set up as memorials (Gen 31:13; Gen 35:20; Exo 24:4), more especially stone monuments set up in commemoration of a divine revelation (Gen 28:18, Gen 28:22; Gen 35:14). Like the bamoth, in connection with which they generally occur, they were originally dedicated to Jehovah; but even under the law they were forbidden, partly as places of divine worship of human invention which easily degenerated into idolatry, but chiefly because the Canaanites had erected such monuments to Baal by the side of his altars (Exo 23:24; Exo 34:13; Deu 7:5, etc.), whereby the worship of Jehovah was unconsciously identified with the worship of Baal, even when the mazzeboth were not at first erected to the Canaanitish Baal. As the מצּבות of the Canaanites were dedicated to Baal, so were the אשׁרים to Astarte, the female nature-deity of those tribes. אשׁרה, however, does not mean a grove (see the Comm. on Deu 16:21), but an idol of the Canaanitish nature-goddess, generally most likely a lofty wooden pillar, though sometimes perhaps a straight trunk of a tree, the branches and crown of which were lopped off, and which was planted upon heights and in other places by the side of the altars of Baal. The name אשׁרה was transferred from the idol to the goddess of nature (Kg1 15:13; Kg1 18:19; Kg2 21:7, etc.), and was used of the image or column of the Phoenician Astarte (Kg1 16:33; Kg2 13:6; Kg2 17:16, etc.), just as אשׁרות in Jdg 3:7 alternates with עשׁתּרות in Jdg 2:13. These idols the Israelites (? Judaeans - Tr.) appear to have also associated with the worship of Jehovah; for the external worship of Jehovah was still maintained in the temple, and was performed by Rehoboam himself with princely pomp (Kg1 14:28). "On every high hill," etc.; see at Deu 12:2. Kg1 14:24 "There were also prostitutes in the land." קדּשׁ is used collectively as a generic name, including both male and female hierodylae, and is exchanged for the plural in Kg1 15:12. The male קדשׁים had emasculated themselves in religious frenzy in honour of the Canaanitish goddess of nature, and were called Galli by the Romans. They were Canaanites, who had found their way into the land of Judah when idolatry gained the upper hand (as indicated by וגם). "They appear here as strangers among the Israelites, and are those notorious Cinaedi more especially of the imperial age of Rome who travelled about in all directions, begging for the Syrian goddess, and even in the time of Augustine went about asking for alms in the streets of Carthage as a remnant of the Phoenician worship (de civ. Dei, vii. 26)." - Movers, p. 679. On the female קדשׁות see the Comm. on Gen 38:21 and Deu 23:18. This sinking into heathen abominations was soon followed by the punishment, that Judah was given up to the power of the heathen. Kg1 14:25-27 King Shishak of Egypt invaded the land with a powerful army, conquered all the fortified cities, penetrated to Jerusalem, and would probably have put an end to the kingdom of Judah, if God had not had compassion upon him, and saved him from destruction, in consequence of the humiliation of the king and of the chiefs of the nation, caused by the admonition of the prophet Shemaiah, so that after the conquest of Jerusalem Shishak contented himself with withdrawing, taking with him the treasures of the temple and of the royal palace. Compare the fuller account of this expedition in Ch2 12:2-9. Shishak (שׁישׁק) was the first king of the twenty-second (or Bubastitic) dynasty, called Sesonchis in Jul. Afric., Sesonchosis in Eusebius, and upon the monuments on which Champollion first deciphered his name, Sheshonk or Sheshenk. Shishak has celebrated his expedition against Judah by a bas-relief on the outer wall of the pillar-hall erected by him in the first palace at Karnak, in which more than 130 figures are led in cords by Ammon and the goddess Muth with their hands bound upon their backs. The lower portion of the figures of this long row of prisoners is covered by escutcheons, the border of which being provided with battlements, shows that the prisoners are symbols of conquered cities. About a hundred of these escutcheons are still legible, and in the names upon them a large number of the names of cities in the kingdom of Judah have been deciphered with tolerable certainty. (Note: Compare Max Duncker, Gesch. des Alterthums, Bd. i. p. 909, ed. 3, and for the different copies of this bas-relief in the more recent works upon Egypt, Reutschi in Herzog's Cycl. (art. Rehoboam). The latest attempts at deciphering are those by Brugsch, Geogr. Inschriften in den gypt. Denkmltern, ii. p. 56ff., and O. Blau, Sisaqs Zug gegen Juda aus dem Denkmale bei Karnak erlutert, in the Deutsch. morgenl. Ztschr. xv. p. 233ff. Champollion's interpretation of one of these escutcheons, in his Prcis du systme hierogl. p. 204, viz., Juda hammalek, "the king of Judah," has been rejected by Lepsius and Brugsch as philologically inadmissible. Brugsch writes the name thus: Judh malk or Joud-hamalok, and identifies Judh with Jehudijeh, which Robinson (Pal. iii. p. 45) supposes to be the ancient Jehud (Jos 19:45). This Jehud in the tribe of Dan, Blau (p. 238) therefore also finds in the name; and it will not mislead any one that this city is reckoned as belonging to the tribe of Dan, since in the very same chapter (Jos 19:42) Ajalon is assigned to Dan, though it was nevertheless a fortress of Rehoboam (Ch2 11:10). But Blau has not given any explanation of the addition malk or malok, whereas Gust. Roesch takes it to be מלך, and supposes it to mean "Jehud of the king, namely, of Rehoboam or of Judah, on account of its being situated in Dan, which belonged to the northern kingdom." But this is certainly incorrect. For where could the Egyptians have obtained this exact knowledge of the relation in which the tribes of the nation of Israel stood to one another?) Shishak was probably bent chiefly upon the conquest and plundering of the cities. But from Jerusalem, beside other treasures of the temple and palace, he also carried off the golden shields that had been made by Solomon (Kg1 10:16), in the place of which Rehoboam had copper ones made for his body-guard. The guard, רצים, runners, are still further described as המּלך בּית פּתח בּית ה השּׁמרים, "who kept the door of the king's house," i.e., supplied the sentinels for the gate of the royal palace. Kg1 14:28 Whenever the king went into the house of Jehovah, the runners carried these shields; from which we may see that the king was accustomed to go to the temple with solemn pomp. These shields were not kept in the state-house of the forest of Lebanon (Kg1 10:17) as the golden shields were, but in the guard-chamber (תּא; see at Eze 40:7) of the runners. Kg1 14:29-30 Further particulars are given in 2 Chron 11 and 12 concerning the rest of the acts of Rehoboam. "There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam the whole time (of their reign)." As nothing is said about any open war between them, and the prophet Shemaiah prohibited the attack which Rehoboam was about to make upon the tribes who had fallen away (Kg1 11:23.), מלחמה can only denote the hostile feelings and attitude of the two rulers towards one another. Kg1 14:31 Death and burial of Rehoboam: as in the case of Solomon (Kg1 11:43). The name of the queen-mother has already been given in Kg1 14:21, and the repetition of it here may be explained on the supposition that in the original sources employed by the author of our books it stood in this position. The son and successor of Rehoboam upon the throne is called Abijam (אביּם) in the account before us; whereas in the Chronicles he is always called Abijah (אביּה, Ch2 12:16; Ch2 13:1, etc., or אביּהוּ, Ch2 13:21). אביּם, i.e., father of the sea, is unquestionably the older form of the name, which was reduced to אביּה, and then identified with the formation from אבי and יה = יהוּ (from יהוה).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Reign of Rehoboam in Judah (compare 2 Chron 11:5-12:16). - Kg1 14:21. Rehoboam, who ascended the throne at the age of forty-one, was born a year before the accession of Solomon (see at Kg1 2:24). In the description of Jerusalem as the city chosen by the Lord (cf., Kg1 11:36) there is implied not so much an indirect condemnation of the falling away of the ten tribes, as the striking contrast to the idolatry of Rehoboam referred to in Kg1 14:23. The name of his mother is mentioned (here and in Kg1 14:31), not because she seduced the king to idolatry (Ephr. Syr.), but generally on account of the great influence which the queen-mother appears to have had both upon the king personally and upon his government, as we may infer from the fact that the mother's name is given in the case of every king of Judah (vid., Kg1 15:2, Kg1 15:13; Kg1 22:42, etc.).

Kg1 14:22-24

The general characteristics of Rehoboam's reign are supplied and more minutely defined in the account in the Chronicles. According to 2 Chron 11:5-12:1, he appears to have been brought to reflection by the announcement of the prophet, that the falling away of the ten tribes had come from the Lord as a punishment for Solomon's idolatry (Kg1 12:23-24; Ch2 11:2-4); and in the first years of his reign to have followed the law of God with earnestness, and to have been occupied in the establishment of his government partly by the fortification of different cities (Ch2 11:5-12), and partly by setting in order his domestic affairs, placing his numerous sons, who were born of his many wives and concubines, in the fortified cities of the land, and thus providing for them, and naming Abijam as his successor (Ch2 11:18-22); while his kingdom was still further strengthened by the priests, Levites, and pious Israelites who emigrated to Judah and Jerusalem from the ten tribes (Ch2 11:13-17). But this good beginning only lasted three years (Ch2 11:17). When he thought that he had sufficiently fortified his kingdom, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel (i.e., all the covenant nation) with him (Ch2 12:1). "Judah did that which was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers (sc., under the Judges) had done with their sins." קנּא, to provoke to jealousy (Num 5:14), is to be explained, when it refers to God, from the fact that the relation in which God stood to His people was regarded under the figure of a marriage, in which Jehovah appears as the husband of the nation, who is angry at the unfaithfulness of his wife, i.e., at the idolatry of the nation. Compare the remarks on קנּא אל in the Comm. on Exo 20:5.

Kg1 14:23

They also (the Judaeans as well as the Israelites) built themselves bamoth, altars of high places (see at Kg1 3:3), monuments and Ashera-idols. מצּבות are not actual images of gods, but stones set up as memorials (Gen 31:13; Gen 35:20; Exo 24:4), more especially stone monuments set up in commemoration of a divine revelation (Gen 28:18, Gen 28:22; Gen 35:14). Like the bamoth, in connection with which they generally occur, they were originally dedicated to Jehovah; but even under the law they were forbidden, partly as places of divine worship of human invention which easily degenerated into idolatry, but chiefly because the Canaanites had erected such monuments to Baal by the side of his altars (Exo 23:24; Exo 34:13; Deu 7:5, etc.), whereby the worship of Jehovah was unconsciously identified with the worship of Baal, even when the mazzeboth were not at first erected to the Canaanitish Baal. As the מצּבות of the Canaanites were dedicated to Baal, so were the אשׁרים to Astarte, the female nature-deity of those tribes. אשׁרה, however, does not mean a grove (see the Comm. on Deu 16:21), but an idol of the Canaanitish nature-goddess, generally most likely a lofty wooden pillar, though sometimes perhaps a straight trunk of a tree, the branches and crown of which were lopped off, and which was planted upon heights and in other places by the side of the altars of Baal. The name אשׁרה was transferred from the idol to the goddess of nature (Kg1 15:13; Kg1 18:19; Kg2 21:7, etc.), and was used of the image or column of the Phoenician Astarte (Kg1 16:33; Kg2 13:6; Kg2 17:16, etc.), just as אשׁרות in Jdg 3:7 alternates with עשׁתּרות in Jdg 2:13. These idols the Israelites (? Judaeans - Tr.) appear to have also associated with the worship of Jehovah; for the external worship of Jehovah was still maintained in the temple, and was performed by Rehoboam himself with princely pomp (Kg1 14:28). "On every high hill," etc.; see at Deu 12:2.

Kg1 14:24

"There were also prostitutes in the land." קדּשׁ is used collectively as a generic name, including both male and female hierodylae, and is exchanged for the plural in Kg1 15:12. The male קדשׁים had emasculated themselves in religious frenzy in honour of the Canaanitish goddess of nature, and were called Galli by the Romans. They were Canaanites, who had found their way into the land of Judah when idolatry gained the upper hand (as indicated by וגם). "They appear here as strangers among the Israelites, and are those notorious Cinaedi more especially of the imperial age of Rome who travelled about in all directions, begging for the Syrian goddess, and even in the time of Augustine went about asking for alms in the streets of Carthage as a remnant of the Phoenician worship (de civ. Dei, vii. 26)." - Movers, p. 679. On the female קדשׁות see the Comm. on Gen 38:21 and Deu 23:18.

This sinking into heathen abominations was soon followed by the punishment, that Judah was given up to the power of the heathen.

Kg1 14:25-27

King Shishak of Egypt invaded the land with a powerful army, conquered all the fortified cities, penetrated to Jerusalem, and would probably have put an end to the kingdom of Judah, if God had not had compassion upon him, and saved him from destruction, in consequence of the humiliation of the king and of the chiefs of the nation, caused by the admonition of the prophet Shemaiah, so that after the conquest of Jerusalem Shishak contented himself with withdrawing, taking with him the treasures of the temple and of the royal palace. Compare the fuller account of this expedition in Ch2 12:2-9. Shishak (שׁישׁק) was the first king of the twenty-second (or Bubastitic) dynasty, called Sesonchis in Jul. Afric., Sesonchosis in Eusebius, and upon the monuments on which Champollion first deciphered his name, Sheshonk or Sheshenk. Shishak has celebrated his expedition against Judah by a bas-relief on the outer wall of the pillar-hall erected by him in the first palace at Karnak, in which more than 130 figures are led in cords by Ammon and the goddess Muth with their hands bound upon their backs. The lower portion of the figures of this long row of prisoners is covered by escutcheons, the border of which being provided with battlements, shows that the prisoners are symbols of conquered cities. About a hundred of these escutcheons are still legible, and in the names upon them a large number of the names of cities in the kingdom of Judah have been deciphered with tolerable certainty.

(Note: Compare Max Duncker, Gesch. des Alterthums, Bd. i. p. 909, ed. 3, and for the different copies of this bas-relief in the more recent works upon Egypt, Reutschi in Herzog's Cycl. (art. Rehoboam). The latest attempts at deciphering are those by Brugsch, Geogr. Inschriften in den gypt. Denkmltern, ii. p. 56ff., and O. Blau, Sisaqs Zug gegen Juda aus dem Denkmale bei Karnak erlutert, in the Deutsch. morgenl. Ztschr. xv. p. 233ff. Champollion's interpretation of one of these escutcheons, in his Prcis du systme hierogl. p. 204, viz., Juda hammalek, "the king of Judah," has been rejected by Lepsius and Brugsch as philologically inadmissible. Brugsch writes the name thus: Judh malk or Joud-hamalok, and identifies Judh with Jehudijeh, which Robinson (Pal. iii. p. 45) supposes to be the ancient Jehud (Jos 19:45). This Jehud in the tribe of Dan, Blau (p. 238) therefore also finds in the name; and it will not mislead any one that this city is reckoned as belonging to the tribe of Dan, since in the very same chapter (Jos 19:42) Ajalon is assigned to Dan, though it was nevertheless a fortress of Rehoboam (Ch2 11:10). But Blau has not given any explanation of the addition malk or malok, whereas Gust. Roesch takes it to be מלך, and supposes it to mean "Jehud of the king, namely, of Rehoboam or of Judah, on account of its being situated in Dan, which belonged to the northern kingdom." But this is certainly incorrect. For where could the Egyptians have obtained this exact knowledge of the relation in which the tribes of the nation of Israel stood to one another?)

Shishak was probably bent chiefly upon the conquest and plundering of the cities. But from Jerusalem, beside other treasures of the temple and palace, he also carried off the golden shields that had been made by Solomon (Kg1 10:16), in the place of which Rehoboam had copper ones made for his body-guard. The guard, רצים, runners, are still further described as המּלך בּית פּתח בּית ה השּׁמרים, "who kept the door of the king's house," i.e., supplied the sentinels for the gate of the royal palace.

Kg1 14:28

Whenever the king went into the house of Jehovah, the runners carried these shields; from which we may see that the king was accustomed to go to the temple with solemn pomp. These shields were not kept in the state-house of the forest of Lebanon (Kg1 10:17) as the golden shields were, but in the guard-chamber (תּא; see at Eze 40:7) of the runners.

Kg1 14:29-30

Further particulars are given in 2 Chron 11 and 12 concerning the rest of the acts of Rehoboam. "There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam the whole time (of their reign)." As nothing is said about any open war between them, and the prophet Shemaiah prohibited the attack which Rehoboam was about to make upon the tribes who had fallen away (Kg1 11:23.), מלחמה can only denote the hostile feelings and attitude of the two rulers towards one another.

Kg1 14:31

Death and burial of Rehoboam: as in the case of Solomon (Kg1 11:43). The name of the queen-mother has already been given in Kg1 14:21, and the repetition of it here may be explained on the supposition that in the original sources employed by the author of our books it stood in this position. The son and successor of Rehoboam upon the throne is called Abijam (אביּם) in the account before us; whereas in the Chronicles he is always called Abijah (אביּה, Ch2 12:16; Ch2 13:1, etc., or אביּהוּ, Ch2 13:21). אביּם, i.e., father of the sea, is unquestionably the older form of the name, which was reduced to אביּה, and then identified with the formation from אבי and יה = יהוּ (from יהוה).

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Forty one years - Therefore he was born a year before Solomon was king, as appears from Kg1 11:42, this is noted as an aggravation of Rehoboam's folly, that he was old enough to have been wiser. An Ammonitess - A people cursed by God, and shut out of the congregation of his people for ever. This is observed as one cause both of God's displeasure in punishing Solomon with such a son, and of Rehoboam's apostacy after his three first years, Ch2 11:17. None can imagine how fatal and how lasting are the consequence of being unequally yoked with an unbeliever.

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¹⁷ So they strengthened [02388] the kingdom [04438] of Judah [03063], and made Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010] strong [0553], three [07969] years [08141]: for three [07969] years [08141] they walked [01980] in the way [01870] of David [01732] and Solomon [08010].

¹⁶ And after [0310] them out of all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478] such as set [05414] their hearts [03824] to seek [01245] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389], to sacrifice [02076] unto the LORD [03068] God [0430] of their fathers [01].

¹⁷ But as for the children [01121] of Israel [03478] which dwelt [03427] in the cities [05892] of Judah [03063], Rehoboam [07346] reigned [04427] over them.

²¹ And Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010] reigned [04427] in Judah [03063]. Rehoboam [07346] was forty [0705] and one [0259] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] seventeen [07651] [06240] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389], the city [05892] which the LORD [03068] did choose [0977] out of all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478], to put [07760] his name [08034] there. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Naamah [05279] an Ammonitess [05985].
²² And Judah [03063] did [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], and they provoked him to jealousy [07065] with their sins [02403] which they had committed [02398], above all that their fathers [01] had done [06213].
²³ For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].
²⁴ And there were also sodomites [06945] in the land [0776]: and they did [06213] according to all the abominations [08441] of the nations [01471] which the LORD [03068] cast out [03423] before [06440] the children [01121] of Israel [03478].

¹ Now in the eighteenth [08083] [06240] year [08141] of king [04428] Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028] reigned [04427] Abijam [038] over Judah [03063].

⁸ But he forsook [05800] the counsel [06098] of the old men [02205], which they had given [03289] him, and consulted [03289] with the young men [03206] that were grown up [01431] with him, and which stood [05975] before [06440] him:

²¹ But Abijah [029] waxed mighty [02388], and married [05375] fourteen [0702] [06240] wives [0802], and begat [03205] twenty [06242] and two [08147] sons [01121], and sixteen [08337] [06240] daughters [01323].

¹ Now in the eighteenth [08083] [06240] year [08141] of king [04428] Jeroboam [03379] began Abijah [029] to reign [04427] over Judah [03063].

¹⁶ And Rehoboam [07346] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] in the city [05892] of David [01732]: and Abijah [029] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.

⁴³ And Solomon [08010] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] in the city [05892] of David [01732] his father [01]: and Rehoboam [07346] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.

³¹ And Rehoboam [07346] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] with his fathers [01] in the city [05892] of David [01732]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Naamah [05279] an Ammonitess [05985]. And Abijam [038] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.

²³ And God [0430] stirred him up [06965] another adversary [07854], Rezon [07331] the son [01121] of Eliadah [0450], which fled [01272] from his lord [0113] Hadadezer [01909] king [04428] of Zobah [06678]:

²⁹ Now the rest [03499] of the acts [01697] of Rehoboam [07346], and all that he did [06213], are they not written [03789] in the book [05612] of the chronicles [01697] [03117] of the kings [04428] of Judah [03063]?
³⁰ And there was war [04421] between Rehoboam [07346] and Jeroboam [03379] all their days [03117].

⁷ And every little chamber [08372] was one [0259] reed [07070] long [0753], and one [0259] reed [07070] broad [07341]; and between the little chambers [08372] were five [02568] cubits [0520]; and the threshold [05592] of the gate [08179] by [0681] the porch [0197] of the gate [08179] within [01004] was one [0259] reed [07070].

¹⁷ And he made three [07969] hundred [03967] shields [04043] of beaten [07820] gold [02091]; three [07969] pound [04488] of gold [02091] went [05927] to one [0259] shield [04043]: and the king [04428] put [05414] them in the house [01004] of the forest [03293] of Lebanon [03844].

²⁸ And it was so, when [01767] the king [04428] went [0935] into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], that the guard [07323] bare [05375] them, and brought them back [07725] into the guard [07323] chamber [08372].

¹⁶ And king [04428] Solomon [08010] made [06213] two hundred [03967] targets [06793] of beaten [07820] gold [02091]: six [08337] hundred [03967] shekels of gold [02091] went [05927] to one [0259] target [06793].

¹⁰ And Zorah [06881], and Aijalon [0357], and Hebron [02275], which are in Judah [03063] and in Benjamin [01144] fenced [04694] cities [05892].

⁴² And Shaalabbin [08169], and Ajalon [0357], and Jethlah [03494],

⁴⁵ And Jehud [03055], and Beneberak [01139], and Gathrimmon [01667],

² And it came to pass, that in the fifth [02549] year [08141] of king [04428] Rehoboam [07346] Shishak [07895] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] came up [05927] against Jerusalem [03389], because they had transgressed [04603] against the LORD [03068],
³ With twelve hundred [03967] [0505] chariots [07393], and threescore [08346] thousand [0505] horsemen [06571]: and the people [05971] were without number [04557] that came [0935] with him out of Egypt [04714]; the Lubims [03864], the Sukkiims [05525], and the Ethiopians [03569].
⁴ And he took [03920] the fenced [04694] cities [05892] which pertained to Judah [03063], and came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389].
⁵ Then came [0935] Shemaiah [08098] the prophet [05030] to Rehoboam [07346], and to the princes [08269] of Judah [03063], that were gathered together [0622] to Jerusalem [03389] because [06440] of Shishak [07895], and said [0559] unto them, Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Ye have forsaken [05800] me, and therefore have I also [0637] left [05800] you in the hand [03027] of Shishak [07895].
⁶ Whereupon the princes [08269] of Israel [03478] and the king [04428] humbled [03665] themselves; and they said [0559], The LORD [03068] is righteous [06662].
⁷ And when the LORD [03068] saw [07200] that they humbled [03665] themselves, the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] came to Shemaiah [08098], saying [0559], They have humbled [03665] themselves; therefore I will not destroy [07843] them, but I will grant [05414] them some [04592] deliverance [06413]; and my wrath [02534] shall not be poured out [05413] upon Jerusalem [03389] by the hand [03027] of Shishak [07895].
⁸ Nevertheless they shall be his servants [05650]; that they may know [03045] my service [05656], and the service [05656] of the kingdoms [04467] of the countries [0776].
⁹ So Shishak [07895] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] came up [05927] against Jerusalem [03389], and took away [03947] the treasures [0214] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004]; he took [03947] all: he carried away [03947] also the shields [04043] of gold [02091] which Solomon [08010] had made [06213].

²⁵ And it came to pass in the fifth [02549] year [08141] of king [04428] Rehoboam [07346], that Shishak [07895] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] came up [05927] against Jerusalem [03389]:
²⁶ And he took away [03947] the treasures [0214] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004]; he even took away [03947] all: and he took away [03947] all the shields [04043] of gold [02091] which Solomon [08010] had made [06213].
²⁷ And king [04428] Rehoboam [07346] made [06213] in their stead brasen [05178] shields [04043], and committed [06485] them unto the hands [03027] of the chief [08269] of the guard [07323], which kept [08104] the door [06607] of the king's [04428] house [01004].

¹⁸ Thou shalt not bring [0935] the hire [0868] of a whore [02181], or the price [04242] of a dog [03611], into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] for any vow [05088]: for even both [08147] these are abomination [08441] unto the LORD [03068] thy God [0430].

²¹ Then he asked [07592] the men [0582] of that place [04725], saying [0559], Where is the harlot [06948], that was openly [05869] by the way side [01870]? And they said [0559], There was no harlot [06948] in this [02088] place.

¹² And he took away [05674] the sodomites [06945] out of the land [0776], and removed [05493] all the idols [01544] that his fathers [01] had made [06213].

²⁴ And there were also sodomites [06945] in the land [0776]: and they did [06213] according to all the abominations [08441] of the nations [01471] which the LORD [03068] cast out [03423] before [06440] the children [01121] of Israel [03478].

² Ye shall utterly [06] destroy [06] all the places [04725], wherein the nations [01471] which [0834] ye shall possess [03423] served [05647] their gods [0430], upon the high [07311] mountains [02022], and upon the hills [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086]:

¹³ And they forsook [05800] the LORD [03068], and served [05647] Baal [01168] and Ashtaroth [06252].

⁷ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] did [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], and forgat [07911] the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and served [05647] Baalim [01168] and the groves [0842].

¹⁶ And they left [05800] all the commandments [04687] of the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and made [06213] them molten images [04541], even two [08147] calves [05695], and made [06213] a grove [0842], and worshipped [07812] all the host [06635] of heaven [08064], and served [05647] Baal [01168].

⁶ Nevertheless they departed [05493] not from the sins [02403] of the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379], who made Israel [03478] sin [02398], but walked [01980] therein: and there remained [05975] the grove [0842] also in Samaria [08111].)

³³ And Ahab [0256] made [06213] a grove [0842]; and Ahab [0256] did [06213] more [03254] to provoke the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] to anger [03707] than all the kings [04428] of Israel [03478] that were before [06440] him.

⁷ And he set [07760] a graven image [06459] of the grove [0842] that he had made [06213] in the house [01004], of which the LORD [03068] said [0559] to David [01732], and to Solomon [08010] his son [01121], In this house [01004], and in Jerusalem [03389], which I have chosen [0977] out of all tribes [07626] of Israel [03478], will I put [07760] my name [08034] for ever [05769]:

¹⁹ Now therefore send [07971], and gather [06908] to me all Israel [03478] unto mount [02022] Carmel [03760], and the prophets [05030] of Baal [01168] four [0702] hundred [03967] and fifty [02572], and the prophets [05030] of the groves [0842] four [0702] hundred [03967], which eat [0398] at Jezebel's [0348] table [07979].

¹³ And also Maachah [04601] his mother [0517], even her he removed [05493] from being queen [01377], because she had made [06213] an idol [04656] in a grove [0842]; and Asa [0609] destroyed [03772] her idol [04656], and burnt [08313] it by the brook [05158] Kidron [06939].

²¹ Thou shalt not plant [05193] thee a grove [0842] of any trees [06086] near unto [0681] the altar [04196] of the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], which thou shalt make [06213] thee.

⁵ But thus shall ye deal [06213] with them; ye shall destroy [05422] their altars [04196], and break down [07665] their images [04676], and cut down [01438] their groves [0842], and burn [08313] their graven images [06456] with fire [0784].

¹³ But ye shall destroy [05422] their altars [04196], break [07665] their images [04676], and cut down [03772] their groves [0842]:

²⁴ Thou shalt not bow down [07812] to their gods [0430], nor serve [05647] them, nor do [06213] after their works [04639]: but thou shalt utterly [02040] overthrow [02040] them, and quite [07665] break down [07665] their images [04676].

¹⁴ And Jacob [03290] set up [05324] a pillar [04676] in the place [04725] where he talked [01696] with him, even a pillar [04678] of stone [068]: and he poured [05258] a drink offering [05262] thereon, and he poured [03332] oil [08081] thereon.

²² And this stone [068], which I have set [07760] for a pillar [04676], shall be God's [0430] house [01004]: and of all that thou shalt give [05414] me I will surely [06237] give the tenth [06237] unto thee.

¹⁸ And Jacob [03290] rose up early [07925] in the morning [01242], and took [03947] the stone [068] that he had put [07760] for his pillows [04763], and set it up [07760] for a pillar [04676], and poured [03332] oil [08081] upon the top of it [07218].

⁴ And Moses [04872] wrote [03789] all the words [01697] of the LORD [03068], and rose up early [07925] in the morning [01242], and builded [01129] an altar [04196] under the hill [02022], and twelve pillars [04676], according to the twelve [08147] [06240] tribes [07626] of Israel [03478].

²⁰ And Jacob [03290] set [05324] a pillar [04676] upon her grave [06900]: that is the pillar [04678] of Rachel's [07354] grave [06900] unto this day [03117].

¹³ I am the God [0410] of Bethel [01008], where thou anointedst [04886] the pillar [04676], and where thou vowedst [05087] a vow [05088] unto me: now arise [06965], get thee out [03318] from this land [0776], and return [07725] unto the land [0776] of thy kindred [04138].

³ And Solomon [08010] loved [0157] the LORD [03068], walking [03212] in the statutes [02708] of David [01732] his father [01]: only he sacrificed [02076] and burnt incense [06999] in high places [01116].

²³ For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].

⁵ Thou shalt not bow down [07812] thyself to them, nor serve [05647] them: for I the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] am a jealous [07067] God [0410], visiting [06485] the iniquity [05771] of the fathers [01] upon the children [01121] unto the third [08029] and fourth [07256] generation of them that hate [08130] me;

¹⁴ And the spirit [07307] of jealousy [07068] come [05674] upon him, and he be jealous [07065] of his wife [0802], and she be defiled [02930]: or if the spirit [07307] of jealousy [07068] come [05674] upon him, and he be jealous [07065] of his wife [0802], and she be not defiled [02930]:

¹ And it came to pass, when Rehoboam [07346] had established [03559] the kingdom [04438], and had strengthened [02393] himself, he forsook [05800] the law [08451] of the LORD [03068], and all Israel [03478] with him.

¹³ And the priests [03548] and the Levites [03881] that were in all Israel [03478] resorted [03320] to him out of all their coasts [01366].
¹⁴ For the Levites [03881] left [05800] their suburbs [04054] and their possession [0272], and came [03212] to Judah [03063] and Jerusalem [03389]: for Jeroboam [03379] and his sons [01121] had cast them off [02186] from executing the priest's office [03547] unto the LORD [03068]:
¹⁵ And he ordained [05975] him priests [03548] for the high places [01116], and for the devils [08163], and for the calves [05695] which he had made [06213].
¹⁶ And after [0310] them out of all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478] such as set [05414] their hearts [03824] to seek [01245] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389], to sacrifice [02076] unto the LORD [03068] God [0430] of their fathers [01].
¹⁷ So they strengthened [02388] the kingdom [04438] of Judah [03063], and made Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010] strong [0553], three [07969] years [08141]: for three [07969] years [08141] they walked [01980] in the way [01870] of David [01732] and Solomon [08010].

¹⁸ And Rehoboam [07346] took [03947] him Mahalath [04258] the daughter [01323] [01121] of Jerimoth [03406] the son [01121] of David [01732] to wife [0802], and Abihail [032] the daughter [01323] of Eliab [0446] the son [01121] of Jesse [03448];
¹⁹ Which bare [03205] him children [01121]; Jeush [03266], and Shamariah [08114], and Zaham [02093].
²⁰ And after [0310] her he took [03947] Maachah [04601] the daughter [01323] of Absalom [053]; which bare [03205] him Abijah [029], and Attai [06262], and Ziza [02124], and Shelomith [08019].
²¹ And Rehoboam [07346] loved [0157] Maachah [04601] the daughter [01323] of Absalom [053] above all his wives [0802] and his concubines [06370]: (for he took [05375] eighteen [08083] [06240] wives [0802], and threescore [08346] concubines [06370]; and begat [03205] twenty [06242] and eight [08083] sons [01121], and threescore [08346] daughters [01323].)
²² And Rehoboam [07346] made [05975] Abijah [029] the son [01121] of Maachah [04601] the chief [07218], to be ruler [05057] among his brethren [0251]: for he thought to make him king [04427].

⁵ And Rehoboam [07346] dwelt [03427] in Jerusalem [03389], and built [01129] cities [05892] for defence [04692] in Judah [03063].
⁶ He built [01129] even Bethlehem [01035], and Etam [05862], and Tekoa [08620],
⁷ And Bethzur [01049], and Shoco [07755], and Adullam [05725],
⁸ And Gath [01661], and Mareshah [04762], and Ziph [02128],
⁹ And Adoraim [0115], and Lachish [03923], and Azekah [05825],
¹⁰ And Zorah [06881], and Aijalon [0357], and Hebron [02275], which are in Judah [03063] and in Benjamin [01144] fenced [04694] cities [05892].
¹¹ And he fortified [02388] the strong holds [04694], and put [05414] captains [05057] in them, and store [0214] of victual [03978], and of oil [08081] and wine [03196].
¹² And in every several city [05892] he put shields [06793] and spears [07420], and made them exceeding [07235] [03966] strong [02388], having Judah [03063] and Benjamin [01144] on his side.

² But the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] came to Shemaiah [08098] the man [0376] of God [0430], saying [0559],
³ Speak [0559] unto Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010], king [04428] of Judah [03063], and to all Israel [03478] in Judah [03063] and Benjamin [01144], saying [0559],
⁴ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Ye shall not go up [05927], nor fight [03898] against your brethren [0251]: return [07725] every man [0376] to his house [01004]: for this thing [01697] is done [01961] of me. And they obeyed [08085] the words [01697] of the LORD [03068], and returned [07725] from going [03212] against Jeroboam [03379].

²³ Speak [0559] unto Rehoboam [07346], the son [01121] of Solomon [08010], king [04428] of Judah [03063], and unto all the house [01004] of Judah [03063] and Benjamin [01144], and to the remnant [03499] of the people [05971], saying [0559],
²⁴ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Ye shall not go up [05927], nor fight [03898] against your brethren [0251] the children [01121] of Israel [03478]: return [07725] every man [0376] to his house [01004]; for this thing [01697] is [01961] from me. They hearkened [08085] therefore to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068], and returned [07725] to depart [03212], according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068].

²² And Judah [03063] did [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], and they provoked him to jealousy [07065] with their sins [02403] which they had committed [02398], above all that their fathers [01] had done [06213].
²³ For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].
²⁴ And there were also sodomites [06945] in the land [0776]: and they did [06213] according to all the abominations [08441] of the nations [01471] which the LORD [03068] cast out [03423] before [06440] the children [01121] of Israel [03478].

⁴² Jehoshaphat [03092] was thirty [07970] and five [02568] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427]; and he reigned [04427] twenty [06242] and five [02568] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Azubah [05806] the daughter [01323] of Shilhi [07977].

² Three [07969] years [08141] reigned [04427] he in Jerusalem [03389]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Maachah [04601], the daughter [01323] of Abishalom [053].

²³ For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].

³⁶ And unto his son [01121] will I give [05414] one [0259] tribe [07626], that David [01732] my servant [05650] may have a light [05216] alway [03117] before [06440] me in Jerusalem [03389], the city [05892] which I have chosen [0977] me to put [07760] my name [08034] there.

²⁴ Now therefore, as the LORD [03068] liveth [02416], which hath established [03559] me, and set [03427] me on the throne [03678] of David [01732] my father [01], and who hath made [06213] me an house [01004], as he promised [01696], Adonijah [0138] shall be put to death [04191] this day [03117].

⁴² And the time [03117] that Solomon [08010] reigned [04427] in Jerusalem [03389] over all Israel [03478] was forty [0705] years [08141].