The Importance of Rehoboam

Shishak the king of Egypt came up and he took away the shields of gold Solomon had made. In five years, Rehoboam loses the massive wealth that his father and his grandfather had amassed over the course of 40 years or 80 years prior to this. Abijah turns out to be a relatively good king at this time. Why? Because he's faithful. That's the measure of the kingship in this case is are they faithful? Are they unfaithful? And that's one of the things for us as well when it comes to following the Lord.