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23 For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant 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 male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons 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 Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the 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, and he took everything, even taking all 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 So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the doorway 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 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.
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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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