Rehoboam Misleads Judah

21 (A)Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, (B)the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 22 And the people of (C)Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they (D)provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they [a]committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23 For they, too, built for themselves (E)high places, (F)memorial stones, and [b](G)Asherim on every high hill and (H)under every luxuriant tree. 24 There were also (I)male cult prostitutes in the land. They committed [c]all the same abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:22 Lit sinned
  2. 1 Kings 14:23 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
  3. 1 Kings 14:24 Lit according to all

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