Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one 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 — The narrative turns to the southern kingdom. The phrase בָּחַר יְהוָה בָּהּ לָשׂוּם אֶת־שְׁמוֹ שָׁם (the city which the LORD had chosen to put his name there) emphasizes Jerusalem as the place of divine dwelling and legitimate worship, a contrast to northern schismatic high places.

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