1 Kings 14:25-15:1

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁵ In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt^(A) went to war against Jerusalem.^{(B) 26} He seized the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.^{(C) 27} King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them into the care of the captains of the royal escorts^[a](D) who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace. ²⁸ Whenever the king entered the Lord’s temple, the royal escorts would carry the shields, then they would take them back to the royal escorts’ armory.^(E)

²⁹ The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign,^(F) along with all his accomplishments, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. ³⁰ There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their reigns.^{(G) 31} Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.^(H) His son Abijam^[b](I) became king in his place.

Judah’s King Abijam

15 In the eighteenth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah