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1 Kings 14:23-29

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23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
26 He carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
27 So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
28 Whenever the king went to the LORD’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
29 As for the other events of Rehoboam’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
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1 Kings 14:23-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

This chapter relates the sickness of Jeroboam's son, the application of his wife, at his instance, to the prophet Ahijah, in the child's favour, 1Ki 14:1-6, the prophecy of the prophet concerning the ruin of Jeroboam's house, and the death of the child, which came to pass, 1Ki 14:7-18, an account of the years of Jeroboam's reign, and also of Rehoboam's, 1Ki 14:19-21, and of the evil things done and suffered by the latter in his kingdom, and the calamities that came upon him for it, 1Ki 14:22-28 and the conclusion of his reign, 1Ki 14:29-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

  • 1. S Exodus 23:24; Deuteronomy 16:22; 2 Kings 17:9-10; Ezekiel 16:24-25; Hosea 10:1
  • 2. S Deuteronomy 12:3
  • 3. S Deuteronomy 12:2; Isaiah 57:5; Ezekiel 6:13
  • 4. S Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 23:7
  • 5. 1 Kings 11:5-7; 2 Kings 21:2; Ezra 9:11; Proverbs 21:27; Isaiah 1:13; Jeremiah 16:18; Jeremiah 32:35; Jeremiah 44:4
  • 6. 1 Kings 11:40; 2 Chronicles 12:2
  • 7. 1 Kings 15:15,18
  • 8. S 2 Samuel 8:7; 1 Kings 10:17
  • 9. 2 Kings 11:5
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