2 Chronicles 12

Shishak Attacks & Rehoboam Humbles Up

1 And it happened, as soon as Rehoboam had solidified his kingship and was feeling strong, he ditched the Law of the Lord, and all Israel was with him.

2 So in the fifth year of King Rehoboam’s rule, because they had curved on the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt rolled up against Jerusalem with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. His crew was too massive to count, Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians came with him from Egypt.

3 He snatched the fortified cities that belonged to Judah and then came all the way to Jerusalem.

4 Then Shemaiah the prophet popped up to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and told them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You all ditched Me, so I ditched you to Shishak!’”

5 Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”

6 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, “Since they humbled themselves, I am not going to destroy them. Instead, I am going to give them some relief, and My anger will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.”

7 “However, they are going to become his servants, so they will know the difference between serving Me and serving the kingdoms of the countries.”

8 So Shishak king of Egypt rolled up against Jerusalem and snatched the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king’s palace. He took everything. He even took the gold shields that Solomon had made.

9 King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and handed them over to the commanders of the guards who protected the entrance of the king’s palace.

10 Whenever the king went into the Lord’s temple, the guards would come and carry them, and then they would bring them back to the guardroom.

11 When he humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him, and He did not destroy him completely. For there was still some good in Judah.

12 As for the rest of Rehoboam’s story, from beginning to end, is it not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer, recorded in genealogies, And there was constant war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

13 Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem and continued as king. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put His Name there. His mama’s name was Naamah, an Ammonite.

14 He did evil, because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.

15 Rehoboam passed away and joined his ancestors, and they buried him in the City of David. And his son Abijah took over as king.