2 Chronicles 12:5-16 ▼

5 And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “Thus says YHWH, ‘You? have forsaken Me; and also I have abandoned you? all into the hand of Shishak.’”

6 And the leaders of Israel humbled themselves—and the king—and they said, “Righteous is YHWH.”

7 And when YHWH saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of YHWH came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, and I will give to them a little thing for escape, and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

8 Nevertheless, they will be servants to him, and they will know My service and the service of the kingdoms of the nations.

9 And Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and he took away the treasures of the house of YHWH and the treasures of the house of the king. He took everything, and he took the gold shields that Solomon had made.

10 And King Rehoboam made in their place bronze shields, and he committed them over to the hands of the captains of the guards who guarded the doorway of the house of the king.

11 And whenever the king entered the house of YHWH, the guard would go and bring them out; and they would take them back into the chamber of the runners.

12 And he humbled himself, and the wrath of YHWH turned from him as not to destroy him completely; and also in Judah there were good things.

13 And King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and he reigned. For Rehoboam was a son of forty-one years in his reigning, and seventeen years he reigned in Jerusalem, the city that YHWH had chosen to put His name there out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess.

14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek YHWH.

15 And the acts of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the Words of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies? And the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam were all their days.

16 And Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and he was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son reigned in his place.