17. So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.
18. All Israel buried him and mourned for him, just as the Lord had predicted through his servant the prophet Ahijah.
19. The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including the details of his battles and rule, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
20. Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. His son Nadab replaced him as king.
21. Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.
22. Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.
23. They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.