BRAGADAYJAH 1032

BRAGADAYJAH 1032

The Death of Rehoboam

So after he had reigned twenty two years he died and his son Nadab reigned in his stead. And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon reigned over Judah. Now Rehoboam was forty years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years over Jerusalem the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Judah to put His name.  And Nadab’s_{_} mother’s name was Naamah who was an Ammonitess. And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provokes Him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed above all that their fathers had done. For they built high places, and images, and groves on every high hill and every green tree. And there were also sodomites in the land and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out in favor of the children of Israel. And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam’s reign that Shishak king of Egypt rose up against Jerusalem and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, including the shields of gold which Solomon had made. And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields and committed them to the care of the guards of the door of the king’s house. And it was the practice that these brazen shields were taken back and forth when the king went into the Lord’s house and back again into the custody of the guards when he came out. And there was constant war also between them during the days of Jeroboam. And Rehoboam eventually died and was buried with his father in the city of David and Abijam his son reigned in his stead. 

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