2Chronicles:12

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* And it came to pass , when Rehoboam had confirmed the kingdom and had strengthened himself , he forsook the law of the LORD , and all Israel with him . * And it came to pass [that ] in the fifth year of King Rehoboam , Shishak , king of Egypt , came up against Jerusalem , because they had rebelled against the LORD , * with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen ; and the people [were ] without number that came with him out of Egypt : the Lubims , the Sukkiims , and the Ethiopians . * And he took the fenced cities which [pertained ] to Judah and came to Jerusalem . * Then Shemaiah , the prophet , went to Rehoboam and [to ] the princes of Judah , that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak , and said unto them , Thus hath the LORD said , Ye have forsaken me , and therefore , I have also left you in the hand of Shishak . * And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves ; and they said , The LORD [is ] righteous . * And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves , the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah , saying , They have humbled themselves ; [therefore ], I will not destroy them , but I will deliver them shortly ; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak . * Nevertheless , they shall be his servants that they may know what it is to serve me and to serve the kingdoms of the nations . * So Shishak , king of Egypt , came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king 's house ; he took it all ; he also carried away the shields of gold which Solomon had made . * And in their place King Rehoboam made shields of brass and committed [them ] to the hands of the princes of the guard that kept the entrance of the king 's house . * And when the king entered into the house of the LORD , the guard came and brought them , and [afterward ] they returned them again into the guard chamber . * And when he humbled himself , the wrath of the LORD turned from him that he would not destroy [him ] altogether ; and also in Judah things went well . * So King Rehoboam was strengthened and reigned in Jerusalem ; and Rehoboam [was ] forty-one years old when he began to reign , and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem , the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , to put his name there . And his mother 's name [was ] Naamah , an Ammonitess . * And he did evil because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD . * Now the acts of Rehoboam , first and last , [are ] they not written in the book of Shemaiah , the prophet , and of Iddo , the seer concerning genealogies ? And [there was ] war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually . * And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David , and Abijah , his son , reigned in his stead .:

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