23 They also built for themselves high places,(A) sacred pillars,(B) and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree; 24 there were even male cult prostitutes in the land.(C) They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.(D)

25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, King Shishak of Egypt(E) went to war against Jerusalem.(F)

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