2 Chronicles 12 GNV
Summary: In Rehoboam's fifth year, because he and Judah had forsaken the law of the LORD, King Shishak of Egypt invades with a massive army and captures the fortified cities of Judah, advancing on Jerusalem. The prophet Shemaiah tells Rehoboam and the princes that because they abandoned God, God has abandoned them to Shishak, prompting the princes and king to humble themselves, at which the LORD announces some deliverance so that Jerusalem itself would not be destroyed, though Shishak plunders the temple treasures and Solomon's golden shields, which Rehoboam replaces with bronze ones. The chapter closes summarizing Rehoboam's reign as marked by evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD, and records his death and succession by his son Abijah.
1And when Rehoboam had established the kingdome and made it strong, hee forsooke the Lawe of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
2Therefore in the fift yeere of King Rehoboam, Shishak the King of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem (because they had transgressed against the Lord)
3With twelue hundreth charets, and three score thousande horsemen, and the people were without nomber, that came with him from Egypt, euen the Lubims, Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
4And he tooke the strong cities which were of Iudah, and came vnto Ierusalem.
5Then came Shemaiah the Prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Iudah, that were gathered together in Hierusalem, because of Shishak, and sayde vnto them, Thus sayth the Lord, Ye haue forsaken me, therefore haue I also left you in the handes of Shishak.
6Then the princes of Israel, and the King humbled themselues, and sayde, The Lord is iust.
7And when the Lord sawe that they humbled themselues, the worde of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They haue humbled theselues, therefore I will not destroy them, but I will sende them deliuerance shortly, and my wrath shall not bee powred out vpon Ierusalem by the hand of Shishak.
8Neuerthelesse they shalbe his sernants: so shall they knowe my seruice, and the seruice of the kingdomes of the earth.
9Then Shishak King of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem, and tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house he tooke euen all, and hee caried away the shields of golde, which Salomon had made.
10In stead whereof King Rehoboam made shieldes of brasse, and committed them to the handes of the chiefe of the garde, that wayted at the doore of the Kings house.
11And when the King entred into the house of the Lord, the garde came and bare them and brought them againe vnto the garde chamber.
12And because hee humbled himselfe, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, that hee woulde not destroy all together. And also in Iudah the things prospered.
13So King Rehoboam was strong in Ierusalem and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and fourtie yere olde, when he began to reigne, and reigned seuenteene yeres in Ierusalem, the citie which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his Name there. And his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitesse.
14And he did euill: for hee prepared not his heart to seeke the Lord.
15The actes also of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the booke of Shemaiah the Prophet, and Iddo the Seer, in rehearsing the genealogie? and there was warre alway betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam.
16And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid, and Abiiah his sonne reigned in his stead.
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