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1 Kings 14:21

in 1 Kings 14

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.

BSB

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.

This verse in 1 Kings 14

Commentary

4 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

to put his name there

Rehoboam's introduction repeats the name formula that runs through the temple chapters, the city which the Lord did choose... to put his name there, restated the very moment the kingdom splits, even though Rehoboam now rules only a fragment of it. His mother is named here and again at verse 31, Naamah an Ammonitess, a wife from the nation Solomon's foreign marriages at 11:1 had already drawn into the king's household. A son of that marriage now sits on David's throne, the immediate domestic cost of the multiplication Deut 17:17 forbade a king to pursue.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 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)

on 1 Kings 14:21-31

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.

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

    urechavamH734650 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֔הSolomon

    shelomohH8010291 times

  • מָלַ֖ךְhe reigned

    malakhH4427348 times

  • בִּֽיהוּדָ֑הin Judah

    bihudahH3063819 times

  • בֶּן־[was] a son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705136 times

  • וְאַחַ֣תand one

    veachatH259971 times

  • שָׁנָה֩year[s]

    shanahH8141877 times

  • רְחַבְעָ֨םRehoboam

    rechavamH734650 times

  • בְּמָלְכ֜וֹwhen became king he

    bemalekhoH4427348 times

  • וּֽשֲׁבַ֨עand seven-

    ushava'H7651394 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֥הteen

    ʾesrehH6240338 times

  • שָׁנָ֣ה׀year[s]

    shanahH8141877 times

  • מָלַ֣ךְhe reigned

    malakhH4427348 times

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֗םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389643 times

  • הָ֠עִירthe city

    hairH58921090 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־where

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • בָּחַ֨רhe had chosen

    bacharH977171 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • לָשׂ֨וּםto put

    lasumH7760584 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • שְׁמ֥וֹname his

    shemoH8034864 times

  • שָׁם֙there

    shamH8033834 times

  • מִכֹּל֙from all

    mikolH36055413 times

  • שִׁבְטֵ֣י[the] tribes of

    shivteiH7626190 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וְשֵׁ֣םand [the] name of

    veshemH8034864 times

  • אִמּ֔וֹmother his

    ʾimoH517220 times

  • נַעֲמָ֖ה[was] Naamah

    naamahH5279

  • הָעַמֹּנִֽית׃the Ammonite [woman]

    haamonitH598421 times

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

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

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Alfred Edersheim, Bible History: Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.