Rehoboam

Rehoboam רְחַבְעָם‎
Detail of Rehoboam from a mural (1530) by Hans Holbein the Younger
King of Israel
Reign	c. 931 BCE
Predecessor	Solomon
Successor	Position abolished
King of Judah
Reign	c. 931–913 BCE
Successor	Abijah
Born	c. 972 BCE
Died	c. 913 BCE
Spouse	Mahalath Maacah Abihail 16 other wives 60 concubines
Issue	Jeush Shemariah Zaham Abijah Attai Ziza Shelomith 21 other sons 60 daughters
House	House of David
Father	Solomon
Mother	Naamah

Rehoboam (/ˌriːəˈboʊ.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.