Near the end of his life, Solomon built places for his foreign wives to worship their false gods.  This angered God, and God said he would not allow Solomon's descendants to reign over all of Israel, but only over some of it.  Following Solomon's death, Solomon's son, Rehoboam, became king of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.  But the ten northern tribes united under a man named Jeroboam and named him king.  Thus the kingdom was divided.  The northern kingdom was called Israel, and its kings were not descendants of Solomon.  The southern kingdom was called Judah, and its kings were descendants of Solomon and his father, David.  Following are some events that occurred in the early years of the divided kingdom.