Shlomo died in the year 2964.

Rechavam son of Shlomo reigned over the tribe of Yehuda at the age of 41 for 17 years, from the year 2964 until 2981, and he lived 58 years. And his mother's name was Na'amah the Ammonite [(Melachim 1 12)]. Achimaatz was Kohen Gadol and Shemayah and Ido were prophets.

Know [that uncertainties arose in the years of the kings. When you calculate the years of the kings of Israel from the beginning of Yarav'am's reign until the exile of Hoshea, you will find 249 or 250 years (and in Seder HaKabbalah, chapter 19b, he wrote 240, 60). And when you count from this the years of the reign of the kings of Yehuda from Rechavam until the sixth year of Chizkiyahu, when Yehoshua and Israel were exiled, you will find 260 or 261 years, etc.

And you need to know that most of the years of the kings of Israel are counted according to the years of the kings of Yehuda. And when a king of Israel reigns in one year of the kings of the House of David, and at the beginning of the next year's king it will count as two years for him. And the Scripture is not precise about the years of the kings of Israel, and a year that was not completed is sometimes counted as complete, and sometimes not counted at all.

And sometimes even many years, even though they were not completed, were counted as years for the past king and for the next king. And see Rashi and Ralbag, Melachim 1 chapters 22 and 16 and Melachim 2 chapter 50, and you will find the words of Chefetz (Tzemach David). And the Seder HaKabbalah, chapter 19, page 72, wrote that in the calculation of the years from the fourth year of Shlomo when he built the Temple until its destruction, the way of the kings of Israel adds up to 410, and the way of the kings of Yehuda will be 430.

Therefore we can say that the juxtapositions of "karit" for "ma'or" and similarly "in this" should come, Aaron, that which our Sages expounded are mere juxtapositions, thus concluded].

Yarav'am son of Nevat from the tribe of Efrayim reigned over the ten tribes for 22 years [(and see Tzemach David that his reign preceded Rechavam's reign by some time). In the Midrash, Nevat is Michah and he is Sheva son of Bichri (Seder HaKabbalah), and this is in Gemara in Chelek 101a, and in Chiddushei Aggadot he reconciles the difficulty that Sheva son of Bichri was from the tribe of Binyamin and Nevat was from Efrayim, and see the Radak.

And the Bereishit (Shem) questioned how that wicked one lived so long]. And Ido was a prophet [(and he prayed that the king's hand would return, and a lion killed him—Melachim 1 chapter 12, see above, year 40)] and Achiyah HaShiloni.

The wife [of Yarav'am was the wife of Zerubbabel Hoshea (see above, year 6)].

The altar and the golden calves [(see above, year 3197)].

The false prophet who returned—the true prophet was really Amatzyah the Kohen of Beit El. And some say it was Gershon son of Moshe. And the true prophet was Michah, and some say Ido [(Seder HaKabbalah) (see above, year 40). In the Yerushalmi, chapter "HaRo'eh," halakhah 2, and chapter "HaNechekin," halakhah 7, it is explained in the Arukh: "And one prophet, an old man, was sitting in Beit El"—this is Amatzyah the Kohen of Beit El, according to Rabbi Meir.

Rabbi Yosi said to Meir, etc., but this is Yonatan son of Gershom son of Moshe (Midrash Chazit on the verse "Support me with raisin cakes")].