^{21 Ref} And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

^{22 Ref} And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.