2 Chronicles 12

New King James Version

Egypt Attacks Judah^(A)

12 Now^(B)it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that^(C)he forsook the law of theLord, and all Israel along with him.^2 (D)And it happened in the fifth year of King RehoboamthatShishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against theLord,³ with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—^(E)the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.⁴ And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.

⁵ Then^(F)Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says theLord: ‘You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.’ ”

⁶ So the leaders of Israel and the king^(G)humbled themselves; and they said,^(H)“TheLordisrighteous.”

⁷ Now when theLordsaw that they humbled themselves,^(I)the word of theLordcame to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves;thereforeI will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.⁸ Nevertheless^(J)they will be his servants, that they may distinguish^(K)My service from the service of the kingdoms of the nations.”

^9 (L)So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of theLordand the treasures of the king’s house; he took everything. He also carried away the gold shields which Solomon had^(M)made.¹⁰ Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committedthem^(N)to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.¹¹ And whenever the king entered the house of theLord, the guard would go and bring them out; then they would take them back into the guardroom.¹² When he humbled himself, the wrath of theLordturned from him, so as not to destroyhimcompletely; and things also went well in Judah.

The End of Rehoboam’s Reign^(O)

¹³ Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now^(P)Rehoboamwasforty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,^(Q)the city which theLordhad chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s namewasNaamah, an^(R)Ammonitess.¹⁴ And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek theLord.

¹⁵ The acts of Rehoboam, first and last,arethey not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet,^(S)and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies?^(T)Andthere werewars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.¹⁶ So Rehoboam^[a]rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then^(U)Abijah^[b]his son reigned in his place.