17
Yarov'am's wife got up, left and went to Tirtzah. The moment she reached the threshold of the house, the boy died.
18
All Isra'el buried him and mourned him, in keeping with the word of ADONAI spoken through his servant Achiyah the prophet.
19
Other activities of Yarov'am, how he fought and how he ruled are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Isra'el.
20
Yarov'am's reign lasted twenty-two years; then he slept with his ancestors, and Nadav his son became king in his place.
21
Rechav'am the son of Shlomo was reigning in Y'hudah. Rechav'am was forty-one years old when he began to rule; and he ruled seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city ADONAI had chosen from all the tribes of Isra'el to bear his name; his mother's name was Na'amah the 'Amonit.
22
Y'hudah did what was evil from ADONAI's perspective; they made him angry because of their sins, which were worse than any their ancestors had committed.
23
For they erected high places, standing-stones and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
24
Also there were male and female cult-prostitutes in the land attached to these shrines, doing all the disgusting things which the nations did that ADONAI had expelled ahead of the people of Isra'el.
25
In the fifth year of King Rechav'am, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Yerushalayim.
26
He took the treasures in the house of ADONAI and the treasures in the royal palace - he took everything, including all the gold shields Shlomo had made.
27
To replace them, King Rechav'am made shields of bronze, which he entrusted to the commanders of the contingent guarding the gate to the royal palace.