rehoboam
Noun
Meaning
Rehoboam (plural Rehoboams)
A bottle of Champagne or Burgundy wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
rehoboam (plural rehoboams)
Alternative letter-case form of Rehoboam
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According to Joshua, son of Nadav, the mention in 2 Chron. 11, 6 sqq., that Rehoboam built fifteen fortified cities, indicates that the attack was not unexpected.
And just when Rehoboam thinks it's drained her, it doesn't know it's experiencing an infection which allows Caleb to take control and shut it down.
Josephus (Ant., VIII., viii. 3) makes the rebels exclaim: " We leave to Rehoboam the Temple his father built."
After this event he returned and participated in a delegation sent to ask the new king Rehoboam to reduce taxes.
Holbein's frescoes of Rehoboam and of the meeting between Saul and Samuel were more simply designed than their predecessors.
However, the new king sought the advice from the people he had grown up with, who advised the king to show no weakness to the people, and to tax them even more, which Rehoboam did.