King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his mother was Naama an Ammonitess.
Awo kabaka Lekobowaamu ne yeenywereza mu Yerusaalemi n'afuga, kubanga Lekobowaamu yali yaakamaze emyaka amakumi ana mu gumu bwe yatanula okufuga, n'afugira emyaka kkumi na musanvu mu Yerusaalemi, ekibuga Mukama kye yeeroboza mu bika byonna ebya Isiraeri okuteeka omwo erinnya lye: n’erinnya lya nnyina lyali Naama Omwamoni.