1 Kings 14:21-31
1599 Geneva Bible
21 ¶ Also Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was one and forty years old, when he began to reign, and reigned seventeen [a]years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonite.
22 And Judah wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord: and they provoked him more with their sins, which they had committed, [b]than all that which their fathers had done.
23 For they also made them high places, and images, and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24 There were also Sodomites in the [c]land, they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord hast cast out before the children of Israel.
25 ¶ And in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
26 And took the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the King’s house, and took away all: so he carried away all the shields of gold (A)which Solomon had made.
27 And king Rehoboam made for them brazen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which waited at the door of the king’s house.
28 And when the King went into the house of the Lord, the guard bare them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
29 And the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in [d]the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam [e]continually.
31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: his mother’s name was Naamah an [f]Ammonite: and Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
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- 1 Kings 14:21 And died before Jeroboam about four years.
- 1 Kings 14:22 Or, besides all that their fathers had done by their sins.
- 1 Kings 14:24 Where idolatry reigneth, all horrible vices are committed, till at length God’s just judgment destroy them utterly.
- 1 Kings 14:29 Which books were called the books of Shemaiah and Iddo the Prophets, 2 Chron. 12:15.
- 1 Kings 14:30 That is, all the days of Rehoboam’s life.
- 1 Kings 14:31 Whose idolatry Rehoboam her son followed.
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