Egypt Attacks Judah
1 Nowit came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, thathe forsook the law of theLord, and all Israel along with him.
2 And it happened in the fifth year of King RehoboamthatShishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against theLord,
3 with 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.
4 And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.
5 ThenShemaiah 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 theLord: ‘You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.’ ”
6 So the leaders of Israel and the kinghumbled themselves; and they said,“TheLordisrighteous.”
7 Now when theLordsaw that they humbled themselves,the word of theLordcame to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves;thereforeI will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
8 Neverthelessthey will be his servants, that they may distinguishMy service from the service of the kingdoms of the nations.”
9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of theLordand the treasures of the king’s house; he took everything. He also carried away the gold shields which Solomon hadmade.
10 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committedthemto the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.
11 And whenever the king entered the house of theLord, the guard would go and bring them out; then they would take them back into the guardroom.
12 When he humbled himself, the wrath of theLordturned from him, so as not to destroyhimcompletely; and things also went well in Judah.
The End of Rehoboam’s Reign
13 Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. NowRehoboamwasforty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,the city which theLordhad chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s namewasNaamah, anAmmonitess.
14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek theLord.
15 The acts of Rehoboam, first and last,arethey not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet,and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies?Andtherewerewars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
16 So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. ThenAbijah his son reigned in his place.