24. There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
25. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27. And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the, hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.