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1 Kings 14:21

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Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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 Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

7 notes on this verse
On the age of Rehoboam at his accession, see 1Ki 12:8 note. The 17 years of his reign must have been complete, or a little more than complete, if Abijam ascended the throne in the “eighteenth” year of Jeroboam 1Ki 15:1.

This site's exposition

Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah

Rehoboam's notice repeats the name formula of the temple chapters, “in which to put His Name”. His mother is named here and again at verse 31. She is “Naamah the Ammonite”, from a nation among Solomon's foreign wives at 11:1, and Deuteronomy 17:17 forbade a king many wives.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 28.2 · Written before 253.

proposed

Our Lord Jesus Christ is genealogized, although being without genealogy according to deity, he entered into genealogy for you. And he is genealogized not similarly by the evangelists, which troubled many who encountered the writing. For Matthew, starting from Abraham, genealogizes him and continues until he says, "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way." And Matthew does not genealogize the one baptized but the one coming into the world; while Luke, genealogizing, does not bring down the genealogy but brings it up to God, the one being baptized.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Forty one years - Therefore he was born a year before Solomon was king, as appears from chap. xi, 42, this is noted as an aggravation of Rehoboam's folly, that he was old enough to have been wiser.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was strange that David would marry his son Solomon to an Ammonitess (for it was done while he lived), but it is probable that Solomon was in love with her, because she was Naamah, a beauty (so it signifies), and his father was loth to cross him, but it proved to have a very bad influence upon posterity.
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But afterwards he began and encouraged a general apostasy; idolatry became the prevailing form of worship, and the religious state of the kingdom in his reign is described by the high places, the idolatrous statues, the groves and impure rites that with unchecked license were observed in them. The description is suited to the character of the Canaanitish worship.

The words behind it

31 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּרְחַבְעָם֙and Rehoboam

    urechavamH7346 →50 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֔הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • מָלַ֖ךְhe reigned

    malakhH4427 →348 times

  • בִּֽיהוּדָ֑הin Judah

    bihudahH3063 →819 times

  • בֶּן־[was] a son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • וְאַחַ֣תand one

    veachatH259 →971 times

  • שָׁנָה֩year[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • רְחַבְעָ֨םRehoboam

    rechavamH7346 →50 times

  • בְּמָלְכ֜וֹwhen became king he

    bemalekhoH4427 →348 times

  • וּֽשֲׁבַ֨עand seven-

    ushava'H7651 →394 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֥הteen

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • שָׁנָ֣ה׀year[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • מָלַ֣ךְhe reigned

    malakhH4427 →348 times

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֗םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

  • הָ֠עִירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־where

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בָּחַ֨רhe had chosen

    bacharH977 →171 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לָשׂ֨וּםto put

    lasumH7760 →584 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • שְׁמ֥וֹname his

    shemoH8034 →864 times

  • שָׁם֙there

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • מִכֹּל֙from all

    mikolH3605 →5413 times

  • שִׁבְטֵ֣י[the] tribes of

    shivteiH7626 →190 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וְשֵׁ֣םand [the] name of

    veshemH8034 →864 times

  • אִמּ֔וֹmother his

    ʾimoH517 →220 times

  • נַעֲמָ֖ה[was] Naamah

    naamahH5279 →

  • הָעַמֹּנִֽית׃the Ammonite [woman]

    haamonitH5984 →21 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 12:13Thus King 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 had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.9 works1 Kings 11:36I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.4 works1 Kings 14:31And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.3 worksDeuteronomy 12:5Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.3 worksPsalms 87:1–2He has founded His city on the holy mountains.2 worksDeuteronomy 12:21If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Kings 8:44When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,2 works1 Kings 11:32But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.2 works1 Kings 8:16‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’2 worksExodus 20:24You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.2 worksPsalms 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:2 worksDeuteronomy 23:3No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.2 worksIsaiah 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”2 works2 Chronicles 13:7Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.2 worksPsalms 78:68–69But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.2 works1 Kings 11:43And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.2 works1 Kings 11:4For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.2 works1 Kings 22:42Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 12:13

    Thus King 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 had chosen from all the tribes of…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 12:5

      Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Chronicles 6:6

      But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

    • Psalms 78:68–69

      But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

    • Psalms 48:1–3

      Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

  • Through

    1 Kings 11:36

    I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 15:4

      Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.

    • 2 Kings 8:19

      Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

    • 1 Kings 11:13

      Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I…

  • Through

    1 Kings 14:31

    And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 12:16

      And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 14 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Alfred Edersheim, Bible History: Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 28.2.

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