Rehoboam

Rehoboam

Rehoboam (; 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. Extrabiblical evidence for Judah’s stability under Rehoboam is limited, with indications that the biblical accounts of Rehoboam and Jeroboam may be retrojections. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rehoboam has received more than 1,804,833 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Rehoboam is the 424th most popular politician (up from 534th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Israel (up from 34th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Israeli Politician.

Rehoboam is most famous for being the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah. He was the son of King Solomon and the grandson of King David. He became king of Israel in 930 BC and Judah in 928 BC.