Dict: smith - REHOB

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REHOB - R>@ - The father of Hadadezer king of Zobah, whom David smote at the Euphrates. (2 Samuel 8:3,12) (B.C. before 1043.) A Levite or family of Levites who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:11) (B.C. 410.) The northern limit of the exploration of the spies. kjv@Numbers:13:21) Robinson fixes the position of Rehob as not far from Tell el
- Kady and Banias . One of the towns allotted to Asher. kjv@Joshua:19:28) Asher contained another Rehob, kjv@Joshua:19:30) but the situation of these towns is unknown.

REHOBOAM - R>@ - (enlarger of the people), son of Solomon by the Ammonite princess Naamah, (Kings:14:21-31) and his successor. (Kings:11:43) Rehoboam selected Shechem as the place of his coronation (B.C. 975), probably as an act of concession to the Ephraimites. The people demanded a remission of the severe burdens imposed by Solomon, and Rehoboam, rejecting the advice of his father’s counsellors, followed that of his young courtiers, and returned an insulting answer, which led to an open rebellion among the tribes, and he was compelled to fly to Jerusalem, Judah and Benjamin alone remaining true to him. Jeroboam was made king of the northern tribes. JEROBOAM An expedition to reconquer Israel was forbidden by the prophet Shemaiah, (Kings:12:21) still during Rehoboam’s lifetime peaceful relations between Israel and Judah were never restored. ( kjv@2Chronicles:12:15; kjv@Kings:14:30) In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign the country was invaded by a host of Egyptians and other African nations under Shishak. Jerusalem itself was taken and Rehoboam had to purchase an ignominious peace by delivering up the treasures with which Solomon had adorned the temple and palace. The rest of Rehoboam’s life was unmarked by any events of importance. He died B.C. 958, after a reign of 17 years, having ascended the throne B.C. 975, at the age of 41. (Kings:14:21; kjv@2Chronicles:12:13) He had 18 wives, 60 concubines, 28 sons and 60 daughters.

REHOBOTH - R>@ - (wide places , i.e. streets). The third of the series of wells dug by Isaac, kjv@Genesis:26:22) in the Philistines’ territory, lately identified as er
- Ruheibeh , 16 miles south of Beersheba. One of the four cities built by Asshur, or by Nimrod in Asshur, according as this difficult passage is translated. kjv@Genesis:10:11) Nothing certain is known of its position. The city of a certain Saul or Shaul, one of the early kings of the Edomites. kjv@Genesis:36:37; kjv@1Chronicles:1:48) The affix "by the river" fixes the situation of Rehoboth as on the Euphrates.