Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one 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. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Forty. Some suspect there is a mistake, and that it should be twenty-one. See 1 Chronicles 22:5. Grotius D.—Hardouin dates from the æra of Solomon. Roboam was young, in the Scripture style. But he might be forty-one years old. Calmet. 12:10. Calmet.—Ammonitess. She probably perverted her son; ( Menochius.) so that he only continued three years faithful to the Lord; (2 Chronicles 11:17) when his people readily imitated the idolatry of Israel, as they had been already staggered in their faith by the conduct of Solomon. Calmet.