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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 48 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REHOBOAM (Heb. re)zab`am, probably " the See also:clan is en-'arged," see Ecclus. xlvii. 23, although on the See also:analogy of Rehabiah and Bab. ra'bi-ilu, `Am may represent some See also:god; See also:Septuagint reads po(3oa,u)  , son of See also:Solomon and first See also:king of See also:Judah . On the events which led to his See also:accession and the See also:partition of the See also:Hebrew See also:monarchy, see See also:JEROBOAM, SOLOMON . Although his See also:age is given as See also:forty-one (1 See also:Kings xiv . 21), the See also:account of his treatment of the Israelite deputation (r Kings xii.), as also 2 Chron. xiii . 7, give an impression of youth . He was partly of Ammonite origin (r Kings xiv . 21), and, like his See also:father, continued the See also:foreign See also:worship which his connexions involved . The See also:chief event of his reign was the incursion of See also:Egypt under Sheshonk (Shishak) I., who came up against Judah and despoiled the See also:temple about 930 B.C . (see EGYPT, See also:History, § " Deltaic Dynasties ") . That this invasion is to be connected with the friendly relations which are said to have subsisted between the first of the Libyan See also:dynasty and See also:Rehoboam's See also:rival is unlikely . Sheshonk has figured his See also:campaign outside the See also:great temple of See also:Karnak with a See also:list of some 150 places 'which he claims to have conquered, but it is possible that these were only tributary, and the names may be largely based upon older lists . Towns of both Judah and See also:Israel are incorporated, and it is possible that See also:Jerusalem once stood where now the See also:stone is mutilated.' The See also:book of See also:Chronicles enumerates several Judaean cities fortified by Rehoboam (not necessarily connected with Sheshonk's campaign), and characteristically regards the invasion as a See also:punishment (2 Chron. xi .

5 sqq., xii . 1-r5; for the See also:

prophet Shemaiah seer Kings xii . 21-24) . Of Rehoboam's successor See also:Abijah (or Abijam) little is known except a victory over Jeroboam re-corded in 2 Chron. xiii . See further See also:Asa, See also:OMRI, and See also:JEWS (History), §§ 7, 9 .

End of Article: REHOBOAM (Heb. re)zab`am, probably " the clan is en-'arged," see Ecclus. xlvii. 23, although on the analogy of Rehabiah and Bab. ra'bi-ilu, `Am may represent some god; Septuagint reads po(3oa,u)
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