Jeroboam did not regain power during the reign of Abijah. The Lord struck him down and he died.

Abijah’s power grew; he had fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.