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And Rehoboam the son of Solomonreigned in Judah.Rehoboam was forty and oneyearsold when he began to reign, and he reignedseventeen*years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother'sname was Naamah an Ammonitess.
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And Judahdidevil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast outbefore the children of Israel.
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And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king'shouse; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
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And kingRehoboammade in their stead brasenshields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king'shouse.
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And Rehoboamslept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother'sname was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his sonreigned in his stead.