10. King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
11. Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
12. So when Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; Judah experienced some good things.
13. King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; he was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.