21Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen to set his name there out of all the tribes of Israel. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess.22Judah did what was bad in the eyes of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done in the sins that they committed.23They also built for themselves high places, pillars, and Asherah on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.24There was also a male cult prostitute in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed before the sons of Israel.25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.26He took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the house of the king, and he took everything. He also took all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.27King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and assigned them to the hand of the commanders of the guards who kept watch over the entrance to the house of the king.28Whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would carry them and return them to the guardroom.29Now 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?30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.31Rehoboam lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess, and his son Abijam reigned in his place.