1 KINGS 14:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.”
Now the name of his mother was Naamah, an Ammonitess. And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done — Rehoboam's mother's foreign origin hints at religious heterodoxy. The phrase וַיַּעַשׂ יְהוּדָה הָרַע בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה (Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD) applies the Deuteronomistic formula. The phrase וַיַּקְנִיאוּ אוֹתוֹ בְּחַטּוֹאתָם (they provoked him to jealousy with their sins) invokes God's passionate claim on exclusive worship.
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