2 Chronicles 12:13

13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

2 Chronicles 12:13 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 12:13

So Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem
Fortified that yet more for the defence of himself, after Shishak departed:

and reigned;
twelve years more, for he reigned in all seventeen, and this was in his fifth year; of what follows in this verse, (See Gill on 1 Kings 14:21).

2 Chronicles 12:13 In-Context

11 It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

12 When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things [found].

13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

14 He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to seek Yahweh.

15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.