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These added strength to the kingdom of Judah and gave their support to Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years. For three years they remained loyal to David and Solomon. (2 Chronicles 11, 17)
Rehoboam married Mahalath daughter of Jerimoth, son of David, and of Abihail daughter of Eliab son of Jesse, (2 Chronicles 11, 18)
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom, more than all his other wives and concubines. He had in fact a total of eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. (2 Chronicles 11, 21)
Rehoboam named Abijah son of Maacah as head, hence leader, of his brothers, with a view to making him king, (2 Chronicles 11, 22)
When Rehoboam had consolidated the kingdom and become strong, he, and all Israel with him, abandoned the Law of Yahweh; (2 Chronicles 12, 1)
and thus it happened that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt marched on Jerusalem, because they had been unfaithful to Yahweh, (2 Chronicles 12, 2)
The prophet Shemaiah then came to Rehoboam and the generals of Judah, who had fallen back on Jerusalem before Shishak's advance, and said to them, 'Yahweh says this, "You have abandoned me and so I have abandoned you into Shishak's clutches." ' (2 Chronicles 12, 5)
To replace these, King Rehoboam made bronze shields, entrusting them to the commanders of the guard who guarded the king's palace gate. (2 Chronicles 12, 10)
Because King Rehoboam had humbled himself, the retribution of Yahweh turned away from him so as not to destroy him completely; and there were also some good features in Judah. (2 Chronicles 12, 12)
Thus he was able to strengthen his position in Jerusalem and continue as king; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he came to the throne and remained king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city chosen by Yahweh from all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. (2 Chronicles 12, 13)
The history of Rehoboam, from first to last, is this not all written down in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? Warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam went on throughout the period. (2 Chronicles 12, 15)
When Rehoboam fell asleep with his ancestors, he was buried in the City of David; his son Abijah succeeded him. (2 Chronicles 12, 16)