2 Chronicles 12:16

Rehoboam died and was buried in the City of David. His son Abijah took over as king.

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In The King James Version

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

In Context

15What Rehoboam did, from beginning to end, is written down in the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer dealing with genealogies. However, Rehoboam and Jeroboam were always at war with each other.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 3:10The male lineage from Solomon was: Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa,

2 Chronicles 13:1Abijah became king of Judah in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 12:14-16

Jeroboam Defeated by Abijah. ( b. c. 965.) 13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty 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. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord . 15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of… Read the whole commentary →

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