1 Kings 14:16-31

Jeroboam sinned, and then he made the people of Israel sin. So the LORD will let the people of Israel be defeated.” Then Jeroboam’s wife left and returned to Tirzah. As soon as she entered her home, the boy died. After they buried him, all Israel had a time of sadness for him, just as the LORD had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah. Everything else Jeroboam did is written in the book of the history of the kings of Israel. He fought wars and continued to rule the people, serving as king for twenty-two years. Then he died, and his son Nadab became king in his place. Solomon’s son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah. His mother was Naamah from Ammon. Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem for seventeen years. (The LORD had chosen that city from all the land of Israel as the place where he would be worshiped.) The people of Judah did what the LORD said was wrong. Their sins made the LORD very angry, even more angry than he had been at their ancestors. The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree. There were even male prostitutes in the land. They acted like the people who had lived in the land before the Israelites. They had done many evil things, and God had taken the land away from them. During the fifth year Rehoboam was king, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. He took the treasures from the Temple of the LORD and the king’s palace. He took everything, even the gold shields Solomon had made. So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to put in their place and gave them to the commanders of the guards for the palace gates. Whenever the king went to the Temple of the LORD, the guards carried the shields. Later, they would put them back in the guardroom. Everything else King Rehoboam did is written in the book of the history of the kings of Judah. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam the whole time. Rehoboam, son of Naamah from Ammon, died and was buried with his ancestors in Jerusalem, and his son Abijam became king in his place.

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