¹³ Yet ^(A)I will not tear away all the kingdom, but ^(B)I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and ^(C)for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

Rehoboam Misleads Judah

^21 (A)Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, ^(B)the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.