See also: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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
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
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
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
.
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