[1] Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was
strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him. [2] Now in
the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against
Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord, [3] With twelve hundred
war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him
out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and
Ethiopians. [4] And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as
Jerusalem. [5] Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of
Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to
them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up
into the hands of Shishak. [6] Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made
themselves low and said, The Lord is upright. [7] And the Lord, seeing that
they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves
low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give
them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of
Shishak. [8] But still they will become his servants, so that they may see
how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands. [9] So
Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the
stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took
everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had
made. [10] And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of
brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were
stationed at the door of the king's house. [11] And whenever the king went
into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the
body-covers, and then took them back to their room. [12] And when he made
himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete
destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.
[13] So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling
there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was
ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made
his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his
mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. [14] And he did evil because
his heart was not true to the Lord. [15] Now the acts of Rehoboam, first
and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and
Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their
days. [16] And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the
earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.
