Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

1 Kings 14

21 f Now 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, g the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. h His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. 22 i And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they j provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built for themselves k high places l and pillars and m Asherim on every high hill and n under every green tree, 24 and there were also o male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

25 p In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. q He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold r that Solomon had made, 27 and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. 28 And as often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.

29 s Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 30 t And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. u His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. And v Abijam his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:13
    So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:32
    (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel).
    1 Kings 11:36
    Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
  3. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:13
    So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  4. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:1
    When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
    2 Chronicles 12:14
    And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
  5. Cross References
    Numbers 25:11
    Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:2
    You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 23:24
    You shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.
  8. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:15
    The Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
  9. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:2
    You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
    2 Kings 16:4
    And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
    Isaiah 57:5
    You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
    Jeremiah 2:20
    For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 23:17
    None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.
  11. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:2
    In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem
    2 Chronicles 12:9 - 11
    So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
  12. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:18
    Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying.
  13. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:17
    And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  14. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:29 - 31
    Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
    2 Chronicles 12:15 - 16
    Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
  15. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:6
    Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
    1 Kings 12:21 - 24
    When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
  16. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:13
    So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  17. Cross References
    Matthew 1:7
    And Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph.
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