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^(af)Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, ^(ag)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.

^(ah)Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord , and they ^(ai)provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with ^[h]the sins which they ^[i]committed.

For they also built for themselves ^(aj)high places and sacred ^(ak)pillars and ^[j](al)Asherim on every high hill and ^(am)beneath every luxuriant tree.

There were also ^(an)male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.