Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

21 ^fNow Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had ^gchosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to ^hput his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

5 But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will ⁱchoose out of all your tribes to ^jput his name and make his habitation¹ there. There you shall go,