16. He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
17. Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
18. All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19. The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20. The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
21. Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
22. Judah did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23. For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
24. There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord drove out before the children of Israel.
25. In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
26. and he took away the treasures of the Lord’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
27. King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
28. It was so, that as often as the king went into the Lord’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.
29. Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.