17. Jeroboam's wife went back to Tirzah. Just as she entered her home, the child died.
18. The people of Israel mourned for him and buried him, as the Lord had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
19. Everything else that King Jeroboam did, the wars he fought and how he ruled, are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
20. Jeroboam ruled as king for 22 years. He died and was buried, and his son Nadab succeeded him as king.
21. Solomon's son Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshipped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah from Ammon.