¹⁷ So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years,^(A) because they walked in the ways of David and Solomon for three years.

Rehoboam’s Last Days

¹³ King Rehoboam^(A) established his royal power in Jerusalem. Rehoboam 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 to put his name.^(B) Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.