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And the people of ^(C1)Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they ^(C2)provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they ^(F1)committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

For they, too, built for themselves ^(C1)high places, ^(C2)memorial stones, and ^(F1)(C3)Asherim on every high hill and ^(C4)under every luxuriant tree.

There were also ^(C1)male cult prostitutes in the land. They committed ^(F1)all the same abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

^(C1)Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt marched against Jerusalem.

And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and ^(C1)he took everything; ^(C2)he even took all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and ^(C1)entrusted them to the ^(F1)care of the commanders of the ^(F2)guard who guarded the doorway of the king's house.

And it happened as often as the king entered the house of the LORD, that the ^(F1)guards would carry them and would bring them back into the ^(F1)guards' room.