2Chronicles:12

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* And it came to pass , when Rehobo ’am had established the kingdom , and when he had become strong , that he forsook the law of the Lord , and all Israel with him . * And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehobo ’am , that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem ,––because they had acted faithlessly against the Lord ,–– * With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen : and innumerable were the people that came with him out of Egypt ––the Lubim , the Sukkiyim , and the Ethiopians . * And he captured the fortified cities which pertained to Judah , and he came as far as Jerusalem . * And Shem ’ayah the prophet came to Rehobo ’am , and the princes of Judah , that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak , and said unto them , Thus hath said the Lord , Ye have indeed forsaken me , and therefore have I also relinquished you into the hand of Shishak . * Thereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves ; and they said , The Lord is righteous . * And when the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves , then came the word of the Lord to Shem ’ayah , saying , "They have humbled themselves : I will not destroy them ; but I will permit some little to escape from them ; and my wrath shall not be poured out over Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak ." * However they shall be servants unto him , and they shall know my service , and the service of the kingdoms of the countries . * And so came up Shishak the king of Egypt against Jerusalem , and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord , and the treasures of the king ’s house : every thing did he take away ; and he took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made . * And king Rehobo ’am made in their stead shields of copper , and committed them for keeping into the hand of the chiefs of the runners , who kept guard at the door of the king ’s house . * And it happened whenever the king went into the house of the Lord , that the runners came and bore them , and carried them back into the apartment of the runners . * And when he had humbled himself , the wrath of the Lord turned from him , so that he destroyed him not to make an end : and also in Judah were some good things . * And king Rehobo ’am strengthened himself in Jerusalem , and reigned ; for Rehobo ’am was one and forty years old when he became king , and seventeen years did he reign 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 Na ’amah the ‘Ammonitess . * And he did the evil ; because he directed not his heart to seek the Lord . * And the acts of Rehobo ’am , the first and the last , behold , they are written in the history of Shem ’ayah the prophet , and of ‘Iddo , the seer concerning the genealogies . And the wars of Rehobo ’am and Jerobo ’am all the days . * And Rehobo ’am slept with his fathers , and was buried in the city of David : and Abiyah his son became king in his stead .

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