Rehoboam Reigns over Judah

^21 (A)Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon became king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, ^(B)the city which Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. ^22 (C)And Judah did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they ^(D)provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with ^[a]the sins which they sinned. ²³ They also built for themselves ^(E)high places and sacred ^(F)pillars and ^[b](G)Asherim on every high hill and ^(H)beneath every green tree. ²⁴ There were also ^(I)male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

^25 (J)Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. ²⁶ And he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh and the treasures of the king’s house. And ^(K)he took everything; he ^(L)even took all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. ²⁷ Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and ^(M)committed them into the hand of the commanders of the ^[c]guard who kept the door of the king’s house. ²⁸ Now it happened as often as the king entered the house of Yahweh, that the ^[d]guards would carry them and would bring them back into the ^[e]guards’ room.

The Death of Rehoboam

^29 (N)Now 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 (O)Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. ³¹ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and ^(P)his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son became king in his place.