23 For they also built for themselves (A)high places and sacred (B)pillars and [a](C)Asherim on every high hill and (D)beneath every luxuriant tree. 24 There were also (E)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.

25 (F)Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:23 I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity