1 Kings 14:23-29

23 For they also built for themselves ¹high places and sacred ²pillars and ³Asherim on every high hill and ⁴beneath every luxuriant tree.

24 There were also ⁵male 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 ⁶Now 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 ⁷he took everything, ⁸even taking all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

27 So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and ⁹committed 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 ¹⁰Now 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?

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.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 12:2; Ezekiel 16:24
• 2. Deuteronomy 16:22
• 3. 1 Kings 14:15
• 4. 2 Kings 17:10; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20
• 5. Genesis 19:5; Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7
• 6. 1 Kings 11:40; 2 Chronicles 12:2, 9
• 7. 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Chronicles 12:9
• 8. 1 Kings 10:17; 2 Chronicles 9:15, 16
• 9. 1 Samuel 8:11; 1 Samuel 22:17
• 10. 2 Chronicles 12:15, 16

Footnotes

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