Rehoboam Misleads Judah

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

^25 (J)Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt marched against Jerusalem. ²⁶ And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and ^(K)he took everything; ^(L)he even took all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. ²⁷ So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and ^(M)entrusted them to the ^[d]care of the commanders of the ^[e]guard who guarded the doorway of the king’s house. ²⁸ And it happened as often as the king entered the house of the Lord, that the ^[f]guards would carry them and would bring them back into the ^[g]guards’ room.

^29 (N)Now as for 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)And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. ³¹ And Rehoboam ^[h]lay down 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 his son Abijam became king in his place.