2 Chronicles 12:12-14

Expanded Bible

¹² When Rehoboam ·was sorry for what he had done [humbled himself], the Lord held his anger back and did not ·fully [completely] destroy Rehoboam. ·There was some [or Conditions/Things were] good in Judah.

¹³ King Rehoboam ·made himself a strong king [strengthened/established himself] in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ·was king [reigned] in Jerusalem for seventeen years. Jerusalem is the city that the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel in which ·he was to be worshiped [^Lto put his name]. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah from the country of Ammon. ¹⁴ Rehoboam did evil because he did not ·want to obey [^Lset/commit his heart to seek] the Lord.