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1 Kings 14
²⁷ King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
²⁸ Whenever the king went to the Temple of the LORD, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.
²⁹ The rest of the events in Rehoboam’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
³⁰ There was constant war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
³¹ When Rehoboam died, he was buried among his ancestors in the City of David. His mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. Then his son Abijam became the next king.
1 Kings 15
¹ Abijam began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel.
² He reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom.
³ He committed the same sins as his father before him, and he was not faithful to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been.
⁴ But for David’s sake, the LORD his God allowed his descendants to continue ruling, shining like a lamp, and he gave Abijam a son to rule after him in Jerusalem.
⁵ For David had done what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight and had obeyed the LORD’s commands throughout his life, except in the affair concerning Uriah the Hittite.
⁶ There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam throughout Abijam’s reign.