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Rehoboam and Solomon
How Rehoboam and Solomon are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Solomon was a parent of Rehoboam.
Rehoboam was Solomon's son and reigned after him. When he would not lighten the heavy yoke his father had laid on the people, Israel rebelled against the house of David.
Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead
1 Kings 11:43, King James Version
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah
1 Kings 14:21, King James Version
Thy father made our yoke grievous
1 Kings 12:4, King James Version
So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them
1 Kings 12:16, King James Version
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day
1 Kings 12:19, King James Version
Where they cross: 1 Kings 11:43
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
1 Kings 11:43
43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 12:4
4Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
1 Kings 12:16
16So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
1 Kings 12:19
19So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
1 Kings 14:21
21And 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.
King James Version