Rehoboam Reigns in Judah^(A)

²¹ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. ^(B)Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city ^(C)which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. ^(D)His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. ^22 (E)Now Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ^(F)provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. ²³ For they also built for themselves ^(G)high^[a] places, ^(H)sacred pillars, and ^(I)wooden images on every high hill and ^(J)under every green tree. ^24 (K)And there were also ^[b]perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the ^(L)abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of ^(M)Israel.