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23 For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon 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 also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
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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 And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem.
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In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which 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 And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king’s house.
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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 And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.
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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 Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.
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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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