⁵ Then ^(A)Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the Lord, ^(B)‘You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.’”

⁷ When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: ^(A)“They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, ^(B)and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

^15 (A)Now the acts of Rehoboam, ^(B)from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of ^(C)Shemaiah the prophet and of ^(D)Iddo ^(E)the seer?^[a] There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.