²¹Rehoboam, son of Solomon, ruled Judah. He was 41 years old when he began to rule. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel, the city where the Lord put his name. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.

²²The people of Judah did what the Lord considered evil. Their sins made him more angry than anything their ancestors had done. ²³They built worship sites for themselves and ⸤put up⸥ large stones and Asherah poles to worship on every high hill and under every large tree. ²⁴There were even male prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah did all the disgusting practices done by the nations that the Lord had forced out of the Israelites’ way.

King Shishak Takes the Temple Treasures—2 Chronicles 12:2, 9–11, 15–16

²⁵In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. ²⁶He took the treasures from the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He took them all. He took all the gold shields Solomon had made. ²⁷So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and put them by the entrance to the royal palace, where the captains of the guards were stationed. ²⁸Whenever the king went into the Lord’s temple, guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.

²⁹Isn’t everything else concerning Rehoboam—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah? ³⁰There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam as long as they lived. ³¹Rehoboam lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. (His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.) His son Abijam succeeded him as king.

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