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23 They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 24 There were also male cultic prostitutes[a] in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations[b] that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

25 In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:24 tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”
  2. 1 Kings 14:24 tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”