⁴ Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp^(A) in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by making Jerusalem strong.

¹³ King Rehoboam established^(A) himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name.^(B) His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.