1 Kings 14:21-24

Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah

14:21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He ¹  was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, ²  the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. ³  His mother was an Ammonite woman ⁴  named Naamah.

14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of ⁵  the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. ⁶  14:23 They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes ⁷  in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations ⁸  that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

[14:21]  ¹ tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[14:21]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[14:21]  ³ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

[14:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.

[14:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[14:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”

[14:24]  ⁷ tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”

[14:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”