--- title: "Rehoboam’s Reign and Death" description: "Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old..." image: "" book: "2 Chronicles" bookId: "2CH" testament: "old" startChapter: 12 startVerse: 13 endChapter: 12 endVerse: 16 coversChapters: [12] aiTitle: "Rehoboam’s Reign and Death" aiDescription: "Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old..." hasAiStory: true location: "Jerusalem" persons: ["Abijah","God","Iddo","Jeroboam","Naamah","Rehoboam","Shemaiah"] hashtags: ["genealogy","judgment","war"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "2CH/rehoboams-reign-and-death" canonicalId: "2CH.12.13-12.16" chronologicalOrder: 818 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "2CH/the-kingdom-divided" nextSlug: "2CH/abijah" --- Thus King [Rehoboam](/persons/rehoboam) established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the [LORD](/persons/god) had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was [Naamah](/persons/naamah) the Ammonite. And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD. Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of [Shemaiah](/persons/shemaiah) the Prophet and of [Iddo](/persons/iddo) the Seer concerning the genealogies? There was war between Rehoboam and [Jeroboam](/persons/jeroboam) throughout their days. And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son [Abijah](/persons/abijah) reigned in his place.

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