^14:21Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He²⁹ was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem,³⁰ the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home.³¹ His mother was an Ammonite woman³² named Naamah.

^14:22Judah did evil in the sight of³³ the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.³⁴^14:23They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. ^14:24There were also male cultic prostitutes³⁵ in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations³⁶ that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

^14:25In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. ^14:26He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made. ^14:27King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard³⁷ who protected the entrance to the royal palace. ^14:28Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

^14:29The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the

Kings of Judah.³⁸^14:30Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other. ^14:31Rehoboam passed away³⁹ and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah⁴⁰ replaced him as king.

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Footnotes

29 Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
30 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
31 Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”
32 Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.
33 Heb “in the eyes of.”
34 Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
35 The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”
36 Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”
37 Heb “runners.”
38 Heb “As for the rest of the events of Rehoboam, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
39 Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
40 In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1–8.