2 Chronicles 12

¹When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he had grown strong, he abandoned the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

²In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, for they had been unfaithful to the Lord.

³with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and the troops who came with him from Egypt were without number: Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.

⁴He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

⁵Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the officials of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, 'Thus says the Lord: you have abandoned me, so I have abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.'

⁶Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is righteous."

⁷When the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying: "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak."

⁸But they will be his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving the kingdoms of the other lands.

⁹So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the treasuries of the king's house - he took everything; he also took the gold shields that Solomon had made.

¹⁰And King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and entrusted them into the charge of the commanders of the runners, who guarded the entrance of the king's house.

¹¹And whenever the king went to the house of the Lord, the runners came and carried them, then returned them to the guardroom of the runners.

¹²And when he humbled himself, the anger of the Lord turned from him and did not destroy utterly; and also in Judah there were good things.

¹³So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

¹⁴And he did what was bad, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.

¹⁵Now the events of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer, along with the genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

¹⁶Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the City of David; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.