1
After Rehoboam's position as king was established and he had become strong,
he and all Israel with him abandoned the law of the LORD.
2
Because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt
attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam.
3
With twelve hundered chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable
troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites that came with him from Egypt,
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he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
5
Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah
who had assembeld in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them,
"This is what the LORD says, 'You have abandoned me; therefore,
I now abandon you to Shishak.' "
6
The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said,
"The LORD is just."
7
When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the LORD
came to Shemiaiah: "Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy
them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out
on Jerusalem through Shishak.
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They will, however, become subject to him, so that they may learn
the difference between serving me and serving the kings of other lands."
9
When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures
of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace.
He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
10
So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned
these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
11
Whenever the king went to the LORD's temple, the guards went with him,
bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
12
Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the LORD's anger turned from him,
and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed there was some good in Judah.
13
King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king.
He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel
in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
14.
He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD
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As for the events of Rehoboam's reign, from beginning to end, are they not
written in the records of Shemaiah the prohet and of Iddo the seer that deal
with genealogies? There was coninual warfare betwen Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
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Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
And Agijah his son succeeded him as king.
