2 Chronicles 12:1-7 ▼

1 When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him forsook the law of the LORD.

2 And it came about in King Rehoboam's fifth year, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

3 with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

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

5 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, |Thus says the LORD, You have forsaken Me, so I also have forsaken you to Shishak.'|

6 So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, |The LORD is righteous.|

7 When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, |They have humbled themselves [so] I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some [measure] of deliverance, and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak.