The story of Rehoboam’s reign is here concluded, much as the story of the other reigns concludes. Two things especially are observable here:—1. That he was at length pretty well fixed in his kingdom , 2 Chron. 12:13. His fenced cities in Judah did not answer his expectation, so he now strengthened himself in Jerusalem , which he made it his business to fortify, and there he reigned seventeen years...