1 Kings 14:19-29

19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, ¹how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Israel.

20 The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two * years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

Rehoboam Misleads Judah

21 ²Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one * years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen * years in Jerusalem, ³the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

22 ⁴Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they ⁵provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the sins which they committed.

23 For they also built for themselves ⁶high places and sacred ⁷pillars and ⁸Asherim on every high hill and ⁹beneath every luxuriant tree.

24 There were also ¹⁰male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before * the sons of Israel.

25 ¹¹Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

26 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and ¹²he took everything, ¹³even taking all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

27 So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and ¹⁴committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the doorway of the king's house.

28 Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the LORD, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards' room.

29 ¹⁵Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Judah?

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1 Kings 14:19-29 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 15

1. 1 Kings 14:30; 2 Chronicles 13:2-20
2. 2 Chronicles 12:13
3. 1 Kings 11:32, 36
4. 2 Chronicles 12:1, 14
5. Deuteronomy 32:21; Psalms 78:58; 1 Corinthians 10:22
6. Deuteronomy 12:2; Ezekiel 16:24
7. Deuteronomy 16:22
8. 1 Kings 14:15
9. 2 Kings 17:10; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20
10. Genesis 19:5; Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7
11. 1 Kings 11:40; 2 Chronicles 12:2, 9
12. 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Chronicles 12:9
13. 1 Kings 10:17; 2 Chronicles 9:15, 16
14. 1 Samuel 8:11; 1 Samuel 22:17
15. 2 Chronicles 12:15, 16

Footnotes 8

[a]. Lit "their"
[b]. Lit "sinned"
[c]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
[d]. Lit "and he took away"
[e]. Lit "hand"
[f]. Lit "runner"
[g]. Lit "runners"
[h]. Lit "runners"