Rehoboam died

21 Solomon’s son Rehoboam ruled Judah. He was 41 years old when he started to rule, and he ruled for 17 years. He ruled in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh chose out of all the tribes of Israel to be the place where he should be worshiped [MTY]. Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah; she was from the Ammon people-group.

22 The people of Judah did things that Yahweh considered to be evil. They caused him to become angry because they committed more sins than their ancestors had committed: They worshiped many other gods instead of worshiping only Yahweh. 23 They built places to worship those gods; on high hills, and under big trees they set up stone pillars to worship the goddess Asherah. 24 Also, there were male prostitutes at these places of worship. The Israeli people did the same disgraceful things that had been done by the people whom Yahweh had expelled while the Israelis were advancing through the land.

25 When Rehoboam had been ruling for almost five years, King Shishak of Egypt came with his army to attack Jerusalem. 26 They took away all the valuable things in the temple and in the king’s palace, including the gold shields that Solomon’s workers had made. 27 King Rehoboam’s workers made bronze shields to replace them and entrusted them to officers who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace. 28 Every time that the king went into the temple, those guards carried those shields; and when he left the temple they returned the shields to the storeroom.

29 Everything else that Rehoboam did is written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’. 30 There were wars continually between the armies of Rehoboam and Jeroboam. 31 Then Rehoboam died [EUP], and he was buried in the part of Jerusalem called ‘The City of David’, where his ancestors were buried. Then his son Abijah became the king.