2 Chronicles 12

1And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Yahuah, and all Israel with him. 2And it came to pass, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Yahuah, 3With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. 4And he took the fenced cities which to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. 5Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus says the Yahuah, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. 6Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Yahuah righteous. 7And when the Yahuah saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Yahuah 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 upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 8Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. 9So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Yahuah, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 10Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house. 11And when the king entered into the house of the Yahuah, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber. 12And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the Yahuah turned from him, that he would not destroy altogether: and also in Judah things went well. 13So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Yahuah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name Naamah an Ammonitess. 14And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Yahuah. 15Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 16And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.