12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem;13 he14 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.15 Rehoboam’s16 mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.
tnHeb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”
14
tnHeb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.
15
tnHeb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”
16
tnHeb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.