[12:13] Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem and increased his power as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, from the land of Ammon.
[12:14] He did what was evil, because he did not try to find the Lord's will.
[12:15] Rehoboam's acts from beginning to end and his family records are found in The History of Shemaiah the Prophet and The History of Iddo the Prophet. Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly at war with each other.
[12:16] Rehoboam died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City and his son Abijah succeeded him as king.