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King Shishak came to Jerusalem and took the treasures from the Temple and from the palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that King Solomon had made.
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To replace them, Rehoboam made bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates.
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Every time the king went to the Temple, the guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.
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Because he submitted to the Lord, the Lord's anger did not completely destroy him, and things went well for Judah.
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Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem and increased his power as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, from the land of Ammon.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.