2Chronicles:12:2-9
rsv@2Chronicles:12:2 @ In the fifth year of King Rehobo'am, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem
rsv@2Chronicles:12:3 @ with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt--Libyans, Suk'ki-im, and Ethiopians.
rsv@2Chronicles:12:4 @ And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
rsv@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Then Shemai'ah the prophet came to Rehobo'am and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, `You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.'"
rsv@2Chronicles:12:6 @ Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."
rsv@2Chronicles:12:7 @ When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemai'ah: "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
rsv@2Chronicles:12:8 @ Nevertheless they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."
rsv@2Chronicles:12:9 @ So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made;
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