As we come to the end of the record of Rehoboam’s reign, we find the same kind of formal language that we saw in regard to Jeroboam. There is the mention of the source for more information. There is a short statement that characterizes his reign politically and militarily, that he was at continual war with Jeroboam. There is also the mention of his death and burial.
It is noteworthy that, unlike the other kings mentioned in the narrative, his mother’s name appears in the conclusion of his story as well as at the beginning. The writer may have been underscoring the source of the entrance of idolatry in the kingdom as the unlawful foreign marriages of Solomon with pagan princesses.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?