Rehoboam

Rehoboam
רְחַבְעָם
Detail of Rehoboam from a mural (1530) by Hans Holbein the Younger
King of Israel
Reignc. 931 BCE
PredecessorSolomon
SuccessorPosition abolished
King of Judah
Reignc. 931–913 BCE
SuccessorAbijah
Bornc. 972 BCE
Diedc. 913 BCE
SpouseMahalath
Maacah
Abihail
16 other wives
60 concubines
IssueJeush
Shemariah
Zaham
Abijah
Attai
Ziza
Shelomith
21 other sons
60 daughters
HouseHouse of David
FatherSolomon
MotherNaamah

Rehoboam (/ˌrəˈb.əm/; Hebrew: רְחַבְעָם, Rəḥaḇʿām, transl. "an enlarged people"; Greek: Ροβοάμ, Roboam; Latin: Roboam) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first monarch of the Kingdom of Judah after the split of the united Kingdom of Israel. He was a son of and the successor to Solomon and a grandson of David.

In the account of I Kings and II Chronicles, Rehoboam saw his rule limited to only the Kingdom of Judah in the south following a rebellion by the ten northern tribes of Israel in 932/931 BCE, which led to the formation of the independent Kingdom of Israel under the rule of Jeroboam in the north.

Rehoboam depicted on a fragment of the wall painting originally in the Great Council Chamber of Basel Town Hall, but now kept at the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland