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. 22 And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ⁱprovoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23 ^jFor they also built for themselves high places and ^kpillars and Asherim ^lon every high hill and under every green tree, 24 and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did ^maccording to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the ^qBook of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 30 And there was ^rwar between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.