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Usage examples of rehoboam.

The strife between Rehoboam and Jeroboam led to centuries of warfare between their descendants, with the result that the tribes of Israel were scattered and disrupted.

The followers of Jeroboam declared themselves rightful and valid in kingly succession, and the supporters of Rehoboam made the same claim.

Among the delegates was Jeroboam who had hurriedly been sent for from Egypt as soon as King Solomon died, and whose presence must certainly have warned Rehoboam that he faced a critical situation.

Count Oxenstierna, Rehoboam took the most provocative action possible in the circumstances.

Jerusalem, which Rehoboam saved from conquest only by paying tribute to the enemy in the form of golden treasure from the Temple and royal palace.

The alternative course that Rehoboam might have taken, advised by the elders and so lightly rejected, exacted a long revenge that has left its mark for 2800 years.

While Rehoboam is not difficult to understand, the case of Montezuma serves to remind us that folly is not always explicable.

Hillsborough, like Rehoboam, believed effective demonstration lay in being as rough as possible.