2 Chronicles 12

¹Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the law of the Lord

²And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord

³with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

⁴And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.

⁵Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the Lord

⁶So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The Lord

⁷Now when the Lord

⁸Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may distinguish My service from the service of the kingdoms of the nations.”

⁹So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord

¹⁰Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.

¹¹And whenever the king entered the house of the Lord

¹²When he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord

¹³Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord

¹⁴And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord

¹⁵The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

¹⁶So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.