So King Rehoboam made his position firm in Jerusalem and went on reigning. He was forty-one when he came to the throne, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
In context
11Whenever the king went to the house of Yahweh, the guard would come and carry the shields, and then take them back to the guardroom. 12Because he humbled himself, the anger of Yahweh turned away from him and he was not destroyed utterly; and in Judah, too, some good was found. 13So King Rehoboam made his position firm in Jerusalem and went on reigning. He was forty-one when he came to the throne, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. 14He did what was evil, for he had not set his heart on seeking Yahweh. 15Rehoboam’s acts, from first to last — are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, arranged by genealogy? And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
