2 Chronicles 12:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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(b) SUMMING UP OF THE REIGN (2 Chronicles 12:13-16).
(Comp. 1 Kings 14:21-22; 1 Kings 14:29; 1 Kings 14:31.)

The Syriac and Arabic contain this section.
(13) So king Rehoboam strengthened himself. — After the withdrawal of Shishak. In other words, he regained strength after the crushing blow inflicted by the Egyptian invasion. (Comp. the same word in 2 Chronicles 13:21; 2 Chronicles 1:1.)

And reigned — i.e., reigned on for twelve years longer; for he reigned altogether seventeen years.

Rehoboam was one and forty... Naamah an Ammonitess. — Word for word as in 1 Kings 14:21. (See the Notes there).

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2 Chronicles 12:13

13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.