21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. ^aRehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city ^bwhich the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. ^cHis mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.  ‡

22 ^aNow Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ^bprovoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.  ‡

24 ^aAnd there were also¹ perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the ^babominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of ^cIsrael.  ‡

25 ^aIt happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.  ‡