King Rehoboam

Rehoboam was the son of Solomon by the Ammonite princess Naamah. Rehoboam selected Shechem as the place of his coronation, probably as an act of concession to the Ephraimites. The people demanded a remission of the severe burdens imposed by Solomon, and Rehoboam, rejecting the advice of his father's counsellors, followed that of his young courtiers instead, and returned an insulting answer, which led to an open rebellion among the tribes. King Rehoboam was compelled to flee to Jerusalem. Only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained true to him. Jeroboam was made king of the ten northern tribes. An expedition to reconquer Israel was forbidden by the prophet Shemaiah; still, during Rehoboam's lifetime, peaceful relations between Israel and Judah were never restored.

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam's reign, the country was invaded by a host of Egyptians and other African nations under Shishak. Jerusalam itself was taken and Rehoboam had to purchase an ignominious peace by delivering up all the treasures with which Solomon had adorned the temple and palace. The rest of Rehoboam's life was unmarked by any events of importance. He died after a reign of seventeen years. He had eighteen wives, sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons, and sixty daughters.

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