And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
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Interpretation
Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen for his temple and his worship, shows that nothing can mend the hearts of fallen men but the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
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This thought runs through 1 Kings 14:25-28.