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Rehoboam
| Rehoboam רְחַבְעָם | |
|---|---|
| King | |
 Rehoboam from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553 | |
| King of Israel | |
| Reign | c. 931 BCE |
| Predecessor | Solomon |
| Successor | Position abolished |
| King of Judah | |
| Reign | c. 931–913 BCE |
| Successor | Abijah |
| Born | c. 972 BCE |
| Died | c. 913 BCE |
| Spouse | |
| Issue |
|
| House | House of David |
| Father | Solomon |
| Mother | Naamah |
Rehoboam (/ˌriːəˈboʊ.əm/; Hebrew: רְחַבְעָם, Rəḥaḇʿām, transl. "an enlarged people"; Greek: Ροβοάμ, Roboam; Latin: Roboam) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first monarch of the Kingdom of Judah after the split of the united Kingdom of Israel. He was a son of and the successor to Solomon and a grandson of David.
In the account of I Kings and II Chronicles, Rehoboam saw his rule limited to only the Kingdom of Judah in the south following a rebellion by the ten northern tribes of Israel in 932/931 BCE, which led to the formation of the independent Kingdom of Israel under the rule of Jeroboam in the north.
Extrabiblical evidence for Judah’s stability under Rehoboam is limited, with indications that the biblical accounts of Rehoboam and Jeroboam may be retrojections.[1]
- ^ Frevel, Christian (2023). History of Ancient Israel. SBL Press. p. 230, 240-241. ISBN 978-1-62837-514-5.
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