2 Chronicles 12

Revised Geneva Translation

12 And when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and made it strong, he forsook the Law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.

² Therefore, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, the king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem (because they had transgressed against the LORD)

³ with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt—the Lubim, Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians—were without number.

⁴ And he took the strong cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.

⁵ Then Shemaiah the Prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the LORD: ‘You have forsaken Me. Therefore, I have also left you in the hands of Shishak.’”

⁶ Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and said, “The LORD is just.”

⁷ And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the Word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them. But I will shortly send them deliverance. And My wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

⁸ “Nevertheless, they shall be his servants, so they shall know My service from the service of the kingdoms of the Earth.”

⁹ Then Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took the treasures of the House of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all. And he carried away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

¹⁰ In their place, King Rehoboam made shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard who waited at the door of the king’s house.

¹¹ And when the king entered into the House of the LORD, the guard came and bore them and brought them back to the guard chamber.

¹² And because he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so that He would not completely destroy. And things also prospered in Judah.

¹³ So, King Rehoboam was strong in Jerusalem and reigned. For Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city in which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put His Name. And his mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

¹⁴ And he did evil. For he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD.

¹⁵ Also the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the Book of Shemaiah the Prophet and Iddo the Seer, in recounting the genealogy? And there was perpetual war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

¹⁶ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. And Abijah, his son, reigned in his place.