¹² When Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned away from him, and he did not destroy him completely.^(A) Besides that, conditions were good in Judah.^(B)

Rehoboam’s Last Days

¹³ King Rehoboam^(C) established his royal power in Jerusalem. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put his name.^(D) Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. ¹⁴ Rehoboam did what was evil, because he did not determine in his heart to seek the Lord.^(E)