1 Kings 14:21–31

Rehoboam Misleads Judah

^21aNow Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, ^bthe city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

^22aJudah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ^bprovoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with ¹the sins which they ²committed.

²³For they also built for themselves ^ahigh places and sacred ^bpillars and ^1cAsherim on every high hill and ^dbeneath every luxuriant tree.

²⁴There were also ^amale cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

^25aNow it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

²⁶He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and ^ahe took everything, ^1beven taking all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

²⁷So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and ^acommitted them to the ¹care of the commanders of the ²guard who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.

²⁸Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the Lord, that the ¹guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards’ room.

^29aNow 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?

^30aThere was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

³¹And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and ^ahis mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son became king in his place.