Verse 21
REHOBOAM’S EVIL REIGN, AND SHISHAK’S INVASION, 1 Kings 14:21-31.
21. Rehoboam On the beginning of his reign, his unwise policy, and his loss of most of his father’s kingdom, see 1 Kings 12:1-24. The various acts and incidents of this king’s reign are given more fully in 2 Chronicles 11:12.
Forty and one years old This number, confirmed by 2 Chronicles 12:13, should be followed, rather than conjectures formed from the fact that Rehoboam’s companions are called young men, ( ילדים ,) 1 Kings 12:8, and from the statements of the Septuagint in its addition to 1 Kings 12:24. Since Solomon reigned forty years, (1 Kings 11:42,) Rehoboam was born one year before his father’s accession.
Naamah Schultz supposes that his mother’s name is here mentioned because she was the occasion of Rehoboam’s idolatry; and Keil thinks it is because she had, as queen-mother, considerable influence in the government. But the single fact that she was of foreign birth an Ammonitess would be a sufficient reason for mentioning her in this connexion, though she may have been dead before Solomon’s marriage with Pharaoh’s daughter. See note on 1 Kings 11:43.
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