20. Jer o boam ruled for 22 years. Then he lay down in death with his ancestors. His son Nadab succeeded him as king.
21. Rehoboam, son of Solomon, ruled Judah. He was 41 years old when he began to rule. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel, the city where the Lord put his name. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammon ite woman named Naamah.
22. The people of Judah did what the Lord considered evil. Their sins made him more angry than anything their ancestors had done.
23. They built worship sites for themselves and ⌊put up⌋ large stones and Asherah poles to worship on every high hill and under every large tree.
24. There were even male prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah did all the disgusting practices done by the nations that the Lord had forced out of the Israelites’ way.
25. In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
26. He took the treasures from the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He took them all. He took all the gold shields Solomon had made.
27. So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and put them by the entrance to the royal palace, where the captains of the guards were stationed.
28. Whenever the king went into the Lord’s temple, guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.