2 Chronicles, Chapter 12:

Verses from 2 Chronicles Chapter 12 of the Bible book.

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The King of Egypt attacks Jerusalem

1. After Rehoboam had become strong and established his kingdom, he and all Israel abandoned the law of the Lord.
2. Because of their unfaithfulness to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign.
3. With twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and an innumerable army of Libyans, Sukkites, and Ethiopians, who came with him from Egypt,
4. He conquered the fortified cities of Judah and reached Jerusalem.
5. Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and the elders of Judah who had fled to Jerusalem to escape Shishak, and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have abandoned me; therefore I have abandoned you and handed you over to Shishak.’”
6. The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”
7. When the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Because they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them, but will quickly deliver them. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
8. But they will be 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 took with him all the treasures of the temple of the Lord and of the royal palace, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
10. So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and gave them to the commanders of the guard at the entrance to the royal palace.
11. Whenever the king went to the temple of the Lord, the guards would take up their shields and then return them to the guardroom.
12. Because of Rehoboam's humility, the Lord's anger turned away from him, and he was not completely destroyed. Indeed, there was still some good in Judah.
13. King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued to reign. 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 to put his Name in. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
14. He acted wickedly because he did not sincerely seek the Lord.
15. Now the rest of the events of Rehoboam's reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the accounts of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer, including the genealogies? There was constant war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
16. Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. His son Abijah succeeded him as king.