1 Kings 14:21-15:6

Names of God Bible

King Rehoboam of Judah^(A)

²¹Rehoboam, son of Solomon, ruled Judah. He was 41 years old when he began to rule. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, the city that Yahweh chose from all the tribes of Israel, the city where Yahweh put his name. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.

²²The people of Judah did what Yahweh considered evil. Their sins made him more angry than anything their ancestors had done. ²³They built worship sites for themselves and put up large stones and Asherah poles to worship on every high hill and under every large tree. ²⁴There were even male prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah did all the disgusting practices done by the nations that Yahweh had forced out of the Israelites’ way.

King Shishak Takes the Temple Treasures^(B)

²⁵In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. ²⁶He took the treasures from Yahweh’s temple and the royal palace. He took them all. He took all the gold shields Solomon had made. ²⁷So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and put them by the entrance to the royal palace, where the captains of the guards were stationed. ²⁸Whenever the king went into Yahweh’s temple, guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.

²⁹Isn’t everything else concerning Rehoboam—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah? ³⁰There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam as long as they lived. ³¹Rehoboam lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. (His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.) His son Abijam succeeded him as king.

King Abijam of Judah^(C)

15 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam (Nebat’s son), Abijam began to rule Judah. ²He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was named Maacah, daughter of Abishalom. ³He followed the sinful example his father had set and wasn’t committed to Yahweh his Elohim as his ancestor David had been. ⁴But for David’s sake Yahweh his Elohim made Abijam a lamp in Jerusalem. He appointed David’s descendant to rule after him and protected Jerusalem. ⁵Yahweh did this because David did what Yahweh considered right: David never failed to do anything Yahweh commanded him to do his entire life (except in the matter concerning Uriah the Hittite).