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.
31. Rehoboam died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. (His mother was Naamah. She was an Ammonite.) Rehoboam’s son Abijah became the next king after him.