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And Roboam son of Salomon reigned over Judah. Roboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel. And his mother was named Naama the Ammanitess.
And a conspiracy came about in the land, and they acted according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the sons of Israel.
And he took all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house, and the golden spears which David took from the hand of the servants of Adraazar king of Souba and brought into Jerusalem; he took them all, the golden arms.
And it happened, whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, that the runners would take them up and would put them back in the chamber of the runners.