[1] It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was
strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him. [2] It
happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh, [3]
with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were
without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and
the Ethiopians. [4] He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah,
and came to Jerusalem. [5] Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and
to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of
Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me,
therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. [6] Then the princes
of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is
righteous. [7] When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of
Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not
destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall
not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. [8] Nevertheless
they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service
of the kingdoms of the countries. [9] So Shishak king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and
the treasures of the king`s house: he took all away: he took away also the
shields of gold which Solomon had made. [10] King Rehoboam made in their
place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of
the guard, who kept the door of the king`s house. [11] It was so, that as
often as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard came and bore
them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber. [12] When he humbled
himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him
altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things [found]. [13] So
king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam
was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes
of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother`s name was Naamah the
Ammonitess. [14] He did that which was evil, because he didn`t set his
heart to seek Yahweh. [15] Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren`t
they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer,
after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and
Jeroboam continually. [16] Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried
in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
