1 Kings 14:21–31

²¹And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. ^bRehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city ^cwhich the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was ^dNaamah an Ammonitess. ^22eAnd Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ^fprovoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. ²³For they also built them ^ghigh places, and images, and ^hgroves, on ⁱevery high hill, and ^ijunder every green tree. ²⁴And there were also ^ksodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

²⁵And it came to pass ^lin the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt ^mcame up against Jerusalem: ²⁶and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold ⁿwhich Solomon had made. ²⁷And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house. ²⁸And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard ^ochamber. ^29pNow the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ³⁰And there was ^qwar between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. ³¹And Rehoboam ^rslept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. ^sAnd his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

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