21 Meanwhile, Shelomoh’s son Rehavam reigned in Yehudah. He was forty-one when he started reigning, and he reigned for seventeen years from Yerushalem—the city that Yahweh had chosen to associate his name with out of all the tribes of Israel. Rehavam’s mother was Naamah the Ammonite.

22 The people of Yehudah did what Yahweh had decided was evil—in fact they made him more jealous (by worshipping other gods) than their ancestors ever had. 23 They even built hilltop temples and sacred pillars and poles on every high hill and under every large evergreen tree.[ref] 24 There were also male prostitutes associated with them, and the Israelis did the same abhorrent things as the nations that Yahweh had removed ahead of their entering the land.[ref]

25 In the fifth year of King Rehavam’s reign, Egypt’s King Shishak attacked Yerushalem[ref] 26 and took away the valuables from Yahweh’s temple, and the king’s palace. He took everything of value, including all the gold shields that Shelomoh had made.[ref] 27 To replace them, King Rehavam made some bronze shields and assigned them to the officers who protect the entrance to the palace. 28 Whenever the king would enter the temple, the guards would quickly take the shields there, and when he left, they’d run them back to the palace.

29 Everything else that Rehavam did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah. 30 Rehavam and Yarobam were in a continual state of war during their reigns. 31 Then Rehavam (his mother was Naamah the Ammonite) died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David, and his son Abiyyam replaced him as king.