16. He will let the Israelites be defeated because Jeroboam sinned, and then he made the Israelites sin.”
17. Jeroboam’s wife went back to Tirzah. As soon as she stepped into the house, the boy died.
18. They buried him and all the people of Israel cried for him. This happened just as the Lord said it would through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
19. The rest of what King Jeroboam did is written in the book, The History of the Kings of Israel. It includes the wars he fought and the way he ruled.
20. Jeroboam ruled as king for 22 years. Then he died and was buried with his ancestors. His son Nadab became the new king after him.
21. Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, was 41 years old when he became king of Judah. Rehoboam ruled 17 years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose for his own. He chose this city from all the other tribes of Israel. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah. She was an Ammonite.
22. The people of Judah did things that the Lord considered evil. They made him angry with all their sins—more than any of their ancestors had done.
23. They built high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles. They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
24. There were also men who served other gods by selling their bodies for sex. So the people of Judah were worse than the people who had lived in the land before them. And the Lord took the land away from those people to give it to the Israelites.
25. In the fifth year that Rehoboam was king, King Shishak of Egypt came to attack Jerusalem.
26. He took the treasures from the Lord’S Temple and from the king’s palace. He even took the gold shields that David had taken from the officers of King Hadadezer of Aram and put on the walls of Jerusalem.
27. King Rehoboam made more shields to put in their places, but they were made from bronze. He gave them to the guards on duty at the palace gates.
28. Every time the king went to the Lord’S Temple, the guards took out the shields and went with him. After they were finished, they put the shields back on the wall in the guardroom.
29. The rest of what King Rehoboam did is written in the book, The History of the Kings of Judah.
30. Rehoboam and Jeroboam were always fighting against each other.