Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord

 1 Kings 14:21-31

Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.

Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than those who were before them had done. They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. He carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made. So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

Jeroboam's rule in Israel covers the reigns of three kings - Rehoboam, Abijah, and Asa - in the southern kingdom of Judah. Here too pagan religion flourishes under Rehoboam. The weakened state loses the Temple treasures to the invading Egyptian pharaoh, and the north and south are constantly at war.

Why?

Israel and Judah the mother of the king was Ammonite, and the marriage with foreigners was because of Solomon. He led the Israelites to turn away from the Lord.

Solomon boasted the golden shields in the Temple were carried off for his country became weak and the Lord didn't protect them. Because they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

The history of Isreal is a mirror shown to us.

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銅與金顏色看來一樣，以銅代金，表示失去了榮耀！建丘壇又要進耶和華的殿，這是標準腳踏兩條船。使用盾牌表示沒有安全感，人離開神表面上沒有改變，實質上生命已經不一樣，失去平安、失去榮耀、光彩。而且不得安寧，一直有外患！

所羅門寵愛這些外邦女子，不但沒有影響外邦人，反而隨這些外邦女子的宗教信仰而行。

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How?

The Lord always gives us the opportunity to repent from our sins. Blessing is he who obeys the word of the Lord.