1 Kings 14:23-31

14:23 They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes ¹  in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations ²  that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

14:25 In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. 14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made. 14:27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard ³  who protected the entrance to the royal palace. 14:28 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

14:29 The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the

Kings of Judah. ⁴  14:30 Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other. 14:31 Rehoboam passed away ⁵  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah ⁶  replaced him as king.

[14:24]  ¹ tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”

[14:24]  ² tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”

[14:27]  ³ tn Heb “runners.”

[14:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Rehoboam, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[14:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[14:31]  ⁶ tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.