8. he will conquer and rule them.Then my people will know what it's like to serve a foreign king instead of serving me.
9. Shishak attacked Jerusalem and took all the valuable things from the temple and from the palace, including Solomon's gold shields.
10. Rehoboam had bronze shields made to replace the gold ones, and he ordered the guards at the city gates to keep them safe.
11. Whenever Rehoboam went to the Lord's temple, the guards carried the shields. But they always took them back to the guardroom as soon as he had finished worshipping.
12. Rehoboam turned back to the Lord, and so the Lord did not let Judah be completely destroyed, and Judah was prosperous again.
13. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled seventeen years from Jerusalem, the city where the Lord had chosen to be worshipped. His mother Naamah was from Ammon. Rehoboam was a powerful king,
14. but he still did wrong and refused to obey the Lord.
15. Everything else Rehoboam did while he was king, including a history of his family, is written in the records of the two prophets, Shemaiah and Iddo. During Rehoboam's rule, he and King Jeroboam of Israel were constantly at war.
16. When Rehoboam died, he was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem, and his son Abijah became king.