Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

21 And 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. 22 cNow 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. 23 For they also built for themselves ehigh 7places, fsacred pillars, and gwooden images on every high hill and hunder every green tree. 24 iAnd 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.

25 lIt happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 mAnd 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. 27 Then 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. 28 And whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.

29 oNow 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? 30 And there was pwar between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 31 qSo 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.