20. He was king of Israel for twenty-two years, then he died, and his son Nadab became king.
21. Rehoboam son of Solomon was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled seventeen years from Jerusalem, the city where the Lord had chosen to be worshipped. His mother Naamah was from Ammon.
22. The people of Judah disobeyed the Lord and made him even angrier than their ancestors had.
23. They also built their own local shrines and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles for worshipping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.