1 Kings 14
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1 Kings 14:24-31

24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

26He carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.

27So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

28Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

29As for the other events of Rehoboam’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

30There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

31And Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.

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