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24 There were also men who served other gods by selling their bodies for sex.[a] So the people of Judah were worse than the people who had lived in the land before them. And the Lord took the land away from those people to give it to the Israelites.

25 In the fifth year that Rehoboam was king, King Shishak of Egypt came to attack Jerusalem. 26 He took the treasures from the Lord’s Temple and from the king’s palace. He even took the gold shields that David had taken from the officers of King Hadadezer of Aram and put on the walls of Jerusalem.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:24 men … for sex Sexual sins like this were a part of the way people worshiped the Canaanite gods.
  2. 1 Kings 14:26 He even took … Jerusalem This is from the ancient Greek version. The standard Hebrew text has “He even took the gold shields that Solomon had made.”

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