2 Chronicles, Chapter 12:
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Verses from 2 Chronicles Chapter 12 of the book of the Bible.
The king of Egypt attacks Jerusalem
- 1. After Rehoboam became strong and established his kingdom, he and all Israel abandoned the law of the Lord.
- 2. Because of his 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, Sukites, and Ethiopians, who came with him from Egypt,
- 4. conquered the fortified cities of Judah and reached Jerusalem.
- 5. Then the prophet Shemaiah came before Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had taken refuge in Jerusalem to escape from Shishak, and said, “This is what the Lord says: 'You have abandoned me; therefore now I abandon them, handing them over to Shishaque' “.
- 6. The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”
- 7. When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, this word from the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Because they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them, but I will soon 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 the royal palace, including the golden shields that Solomon had made.
- 10. So King Rehoboam had bronze shields made to replace them and gave them to the chief guards 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 guard room.
- 12. Because of Rehoboam's humility, the Lord's anger turned away from him and he was not completely destroyed. In fact, there was still some good in Judah.
- 13. King Rehoboam firmly established himself in power in Jerusalem and continued to reign. He was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother, an Ammonite, was named Naamah.
- 14. He acted badly because he did not sincerely seek the Lord.
- 15. The other events of Rehoboam's reign, from beginning to end, are written in the accounts of the prophet Shemaiah and the seer Iddo, which include 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 was his successor.
