When Shishak was gone away, king Rehoboam made bucklers and shields
of brass, instead of those of gold, and delivered the same number of them
to the keepers of the king's palace. So, instead of warlike expeditions,
and that glory which results from those public actions, he reigned in great
quietness, though not without fear, as being always an enemy to Jeroboam,
and he died when he had lived fifty-seven years, and reigned seventeen.
He was in his disposition a proud and a foolish man, and lost [part of
his] dominions by not hearkening to his father's friends. He was buried
in Jerusalem, in the sepulchers of the kings; and his son Abijah succeeded
him in the kingdom, and this in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam's reign
over the ten tribes; and this was the conclusion of these affairs. It must
be now our business to relate the affairs of Jeroboam, and how he ended
his life; for he ceased not nor rested to be injurious to God, but every
day raised up altars upon high mountains, and went on making priests out
of the multitude.