21 And Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled over Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother’s name [was] Naamah the Ammonitess. 22 And Rehoboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned. 23 And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and [planted] groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree. 24 And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the children of Israel. 25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; 26 and took all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and the golden spears which David took out of the hand of the sons of Hadadezer king of Zobah, and brought them into Jerusalem, even all that he took, [and] the golden shields which Solomon had made, and carried them away into Egypt. 27 And King Rehoboam made brazen shields instead of them; and the chiefs of the body guard, who kept the gate of the house of the king, were placed in charge over them. 28 And it came to pass when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the body guard took them up, and fixed them in the chamber of the body guard. 29 And the rest of the history of Rehoboam, and all that he did, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
1 Kings 14 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
There are no verses 1–20 in this translation; the other verses keep their usual numbers.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Naamah the Ammonite
An Ammonite woman named as the mother of King Rehoboam, both when he began and when he ended his reign.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 14:31; 2 Chronicles 12:13
Rehoboam
His harsh answer to the people split the kingdom of Israel in two.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 12; 14:21-31; 2 Chron. 10-12; Matt. 1:7
Shishak
King of Egypt who sheltered Jeroboam from Solomon and in Rehoboam's fifth year attacked Jerusalem and took the temple and palace treasures, including Solomon's gold shields.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 11:40; 1 Kings 14:25; 2 Chronicles 12:2
Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 21 2 Chronicles 12:13; 1 Kings 11:36; 1 Kings 14:31; Deuteronomy 12:5; 1 Kings 11:43
- 22 2 Chronicles 12:1; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Psalm 78:58; Isaiah 65:3–4; Judges 3:12
- 23 Deuteronomy 12:2; Isaiah 57:5; 2 Kings 17:9–10; Ezekiel 16:24–25; Micah 5:14
- 24 Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Kings 23:7; 1 Kings 15:12; Genesis 19:5
- 25 1 Kings 11:40; 2 Chronicles 12:2–4; 2 Chronicles 12:9
- 26 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Chronicles 9:15–16; 1 Kings 7:51; 2 Kings 24:13; Psalm 89:35–45
- 27 1 Samuel 22:17; 1 Samuel 8:11; 1 Kings 14:1; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Kings 14:5
- 28 2 Chronicles 12:11
- 29 1 Kings 22:45; 1 Kings 11:41; 2 Chronicles 12:15–16; 1 Kings 14:19; 1 Kings 15:23
- 30 1 Kings 12:21; 1 Kings 12:24; 1 Kings 15:6–7; 2 Chronicles 12:15
- 31 2 Chronicles 12:16; Matthew 1:7; 1 Kings 14:20–21; 1 Chronicles 3:10; 1 Kings 15:3
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