2 Chronicles 12
12:1 After Rehoboam’s rule was established and solidified, he and all Israel rejected the law of the Lord>.
12:2 Because they were unfaithful to the Lord,> in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
12:3 He had 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and an innumerable number of soldiers who accompanied him from Egypt, including Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
12:4 He captured the fortified cities of Judah and marched against Jerusalem.
12:5 Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord> says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’”1
12:6 The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord> is just.”2
12:7 When the Lord> saw that they humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah:3 “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon.4 My anger will not be unleashed against5 Jerusalem through6 Shishak.
12:8 Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.”7
12:9 King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord>’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
12:10 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard8 who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
12:11 Whenever the king visited the Lord>’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.9
12:12 So when Rehoboam10 humbled himself, the Lord> relented from his anger and did not annihilate him;11 Judah experienced some good things.12
12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem;13 he14 was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord> chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home.15 Rehoboam’s16 mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.
12:14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the Lord>.17
12:15 The events of Rehoboam’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded18 in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that include genealogical records.
12:16 Then Rehoboam passed away19 and was buried in the City of David.20 His son Abijah replaced him as king.
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