Rehoboam רְחַבְעָם

King of Judah. Rehoboam was the son of Solomon and the first king of Judah after the division of the kingdom.

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Also called Roboam.

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In the genealogy of Jesus · Kings of Israel and Judah

Where Rehoboam appears

2 Chronicles (23), 1 Kings (17), 1 Chronicles (1), Matthew (1)

Key verses

• 1 Kings 11:43 first mention — And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
• 1 Kings 12:1 — And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
• 1 Kings 14:21 — And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
• 1 Kings 14:29 — Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
• 1 Kings 14:31 — And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
• 1 Chronicles 3:10 — And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
• 2 Chronicles 11:5 — And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
• 2 Chronicles 12:1 — And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
• 2 Chronicles 12:2 — And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
• 2 Chronicles 12:5 — Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
• 2 Chronicles 12:13 — So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
• 2 Chronicles 13:7 — And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.