The Second Book of Chronicles (WEB)
12: 1It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he
forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him. 12:2It happened in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed
against Yahweh, 12:3with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were
without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
12:4He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. 12:5Now Shemaiah
the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to
Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me,
therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. 12:6Then the princes of Israel and the king
humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is righteous. 12:7When Yahweh saw that they humbled
themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I
will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured
out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 12:8Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may
know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. 12:9So Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures
of the king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had
made. 12:10King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands
of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. 12:11It was so, that as often as
the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back
into the guard-chamber. 12:12When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so
as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found. 12:13So king
Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the
Ammonitess. 12:14He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to seek Yahweh.
12:15Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the
prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 12:16Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
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