1 Kings 14:21–31

Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

²¹And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. ^zRehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city ^awhich the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. ^bHis mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. ^22cNow Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ^dprovoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. ²³For they also built for themselves ^ehigh ⁷places, ^fsacred pillars, and ^gwooden images on every high hill and ^hunder every green tree. ²⁴ⁱAnd there were also ⁸perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the ^jabominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of ^kIsrael.

^25lIt happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. ^26mAnd he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields ⁿwhich Solomon had made. ²⁷Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and ⁹committed them to the hands of the captains of the ¹guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house. ²⁸And whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.

^29oNow 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 ^pwar between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. ^31qSo Rehoboam ²rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. ^rHis mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then ^sAbijam ³his son reigned in his place.