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23 For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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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 and female shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
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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’s reign, King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.
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In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
26 He ransacked the treasuries of the LORD ’s Temple and the royal palace; he stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
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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 King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
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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 Temple of the LORD, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.
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Whenever the king went to the LORD’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
29 The rest of the events in Rehoboam’s reign and everything he did are recorded in
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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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