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And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah .
Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem ,
the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel ,
to put His name there ;
and his mother '
s name was Naamah the Ammonitess .
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And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD ;
and they moved Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed ,
above all that their fathers had done .
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For they also built them high places ,
and pillars ,
and Asherim ,
on every high hill ,
and under every leafy tree ;
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and there were also sodomites in the land ;
they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel .
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And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam ,
that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem ;
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and he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD ,
and the treasures of the king '
s house ;
he even took away all ;
and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made .
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And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass ,
and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard ,
who kept the door of the king '
s house .
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And it was so ,
that as oft as the king went into the house of the LORD ,
the guard bore them ,
and brought them back into the guard-chamber .
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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 ?
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And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually .
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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers ,
and was buried with his fathers in the city of David ;
and his mother '
s name was Naamah the Ammonitess .
And Abijam his son reigned in his stead .