Roboam Ier
Roboam , first King of the Kingdom of Juda, reigned of -931 with -914. It was wire of Solomon and is at the origin of the great schism which divided the Royaume of Israel into 2 rival kingdoms.
Like all the kings of the time, it was to be able to reign to obtain the allegiance of the Tribus of Israel. He thus undertook a voyage to Sichem (current the Nablus) in order to collect this one near the brought together chiefs of tribe. But the latter, under the control of Jeroboam, benefitted from it to present their complaints to him: they asked less heavy Impôt S and the abolition of the Corvée S which had been instituted in order to take part in the embellishment of the kingdom under the reign of Solomon.
Instead of taking the advice of the former advisers of his father, Roboam preferred to follow those of its own advisers, ambitious and without political direction. He thus refused brutally to reach at the requests of the tribes and theirs announced without any diplomacy. Jeroboam and the tribes of North thus did not prétèrent allegiance with Roboam and were constituted in a distinct kingdom: the Kingdom of Israel. Of return to Jerusalem, Roboam realized that only two tribes had remained to him faithful: that of Benjamin and that of Juda. It formed with them the Royaume of Juda.
Roboam was contemporary Pharaon Sheshonq {{1st}}, which attacked Jerusalem during the fifth year of the rule of Roboam and plundered the temple and the royal palace of it. With this fact reported in the Writings, one confirms the date on which Roboam lived. According to Manéthon, Sheshonq, reigned between -945 and -924.
His/her son Abiam succeeds to him in -914
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