Rehoboam Is King of Judah
3 Kingdoms 14, verse 1. Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned over Judah, and he was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to place His name. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 2. Now Rehoboam did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked Him in all the things which their fathers did in the sins they committed. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 3. For they built high places for themselves: sacred pillars, and groves on every high hill and under every shady tree. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 4. So there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did all the detestable things of the nations the Lord removed from before the children of Israel. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 5. In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 6. He took all the treasures of the Lord's house, the treasures of the king's house, and the gold spears David received from the hand of the servants of Hadadezer, king of Syria, who brought them to Jerusalem. He took away all the gold weapons. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 7. Then King Rehoboam made bronze weapons in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king's house. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 8. For whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 9. Now the rest of the words of Rehoboam, and everything he did, is it not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 10. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 3 Kingdoms 14, verse 11. So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Then Abijam his son reigned in his place.