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23 They built high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles.[a] 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.[b] 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:23 high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles People used these things to worship false gods.
  2. 1 Kings 14:24 men … for sex Sexual sins like this were a part of the way people worshiped the Canaanite gods.

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