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23 For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim 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 and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people 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 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak 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 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that 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 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door 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 as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard carried them and brought them back 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 Now 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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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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