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Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king's house.
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And whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the guard would go and bring them out; then they would take them back into the guardroom.
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When he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and things also went well in Judah.
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Thus Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
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And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.
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The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
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So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.