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The Lord will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin."
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Jeroboam's wife went back to Tirzah. Just as she entered her home, the child died.
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The people of Israel mourned for him and buried him, as the Lord had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
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Everything else that King Jeroboam did, the wars he fought and how he ruled, are all recorded in [The History of the Kings of Israel.]
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Jeroboam ruled as king for twenty-two years. He died and was buried, and his son Nadab succeeded him as king.
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Solomon's son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah from Ammon.
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The people of Judah sinned against the Lord and did more to arouse his anger against them than all their ancestors had done.
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They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
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Worst of all, there were men and women who served as prostitutes at those pagan places of worship. The people of Judah practiced all the shameful things done by the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced into the country.
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In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
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He took away all the treasures in the Temple and in the palace, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
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