2 Chronicles 10:5

10:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

2 Chronicles 10:1

The Northern Tribes Rebel

10:1 Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.

2 Chronicles 12:12-15

12:12 So when Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; Judah experienced some good things. 12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; he was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. 12:14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the Lord. 10 

12:15 The events of Rehoboam’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded 11  in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that include genealogical records.


tn Heb “come [to].”

tn Heb “him”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “the anger of the Lord turned from him and did not destroy completely.”

tn Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”

tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”

tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

10 tn Heb “because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.”

11 tn Heb “As for the events of Rehoboam, the former and the latter, are they not written?”