1 Kings 14:23-29

23 For they also built for themselves ¹high places ²and pillars and ³Asherim on every high hill and ⁴under every green tree,

24 and there were also ⁵male 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.

25 ⁶In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

26 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house. ⁷He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold ⁸that 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.

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.

29 ⁹Now 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?

1 Kings 14:23-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

This chapter relates the sickness of Jeroboam's son, the application of his wife, at his instance, to the prophet Ahijah, in the child's favour, 1Ki 14:1-6, the prophecy of the prophet concerning the ruin of Jeroboam's house, and the death of the child, which came to pass, 1Ki 14:7-18, an account of the years of Jeroboam's reign, and also of Rehoboam's, 1Ki 14:19-21, and of the evil things done and suffered by the latter in his kingdom, and the calamities that came upon him for it, 1Ki 14:22-28 and the conclusion of his reign, 1Ki 14:29-31.

Cross References

• 1. See Deuteronomy 12:2
• 2. See Exodus 23:24
• 3. ver. 15
• 4. Deuteronomy 12:2; 2 Kings 16:4; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20
• 5. See Deuteronomy 23:17
• 6. 2 Chr. 12:2, 9-11
• 7. [1 Kings 15:18]
• 8. 1 Kings 10:17
• 9. For ver. 29-31, see 2 Chronicles 12:15, 16