And Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph. The royal line continues through the divided monarchy — the kings of Judah after Solomon's catastrophic failure to hold the kingdom together. Rehoboam's foolishness split the nation (1 Kings 12:1–17); Abijah's reign was marked by war and theological inconsistency (1 Kings 15:1–8). The genealogy does not annotate these failures, but any reader who knew the kings' stories would hear them behind the names. The covenant runs through the line of David not because the Davidic kings were faithful but because God's promise to David was unconditional. Psalm 89:30–37 makes this explicit: even if David's sons forsake the law, God will not revoke the covenant.

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