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1About the same time, Abijah son of Jeroboam got sick.
2-3Jeroboam told his wife:
4She got ready and left for Ahijah's house in Shiloh.
Ahijah was now old and blind,
5but the Lord told him, “Jeroboam's wife is coming to ask about her son. I will tell you what to say to her.”
Jeroboam's wife came to Ahijah's house, pretending to be someone else.
6But when Ahijah heard her walking up to the door, he said:
17Jeroboam's wife left and went back home to the town of Tirzah. As soon as she set foot in her house, her son died.
18Everyone in Israel came and mourned at his funeral, just as the Lord 's servant Ahijah had said.
19Everything else Jeroboam did while he was king, including the battles he won, is written in The History of the Kings of Israel .
20He was king of Israel for 22 years, then he died, and his son Nadab became king.
21Rehoboam son of Solomon was 41 years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled 17 years from Jerusalem, the city where the Lord had chosen to be worshiped. His mother Naamah was from Ammon.
22The people of Judah disobeyed the Lord and made him even angrier than their ancestors had.
23They also built their own local shrines and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.[#2 K 17.9,10.; #14.23 See the note at 3.2.; #14.23 See the note at 14.15.]
24Even worse, they allowed prostitutes at the shrines, and followed the disgusting customs of the foreign nations that the Lord had forced out of Canaan.[#Dt 23.17.; #14.24 Men and women sometimes served at the local shrines as prostitutes in the worship of Canaanite gods, but the had forbidden the people of Israel to worship in this way (see Deuteronomy 23.17,18).]
25After Rehoboam had been king for four years, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.[#2 Ch 12.2-8.]
26He took everything of value from the temple and the palace, including Solomon's gold shields.[#1 K 10.16,17; 2 Ch 9.15,16.]
27Rehoboam had bronze shields made to replace the gold ones, and he ordered the guards at the city gates to keep them safe.
28Whenever 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 was finished.
29Everything else Rehoboam did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah .
30He and Jeroboam were constantly at war.
31Rehoboam's mother Naamah was from Ammon, but when Rehoboam died, he was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem. His son Abijam then became king.[#14.31 See the note at 2.10,11.]