12:1 When
the
rule
of
Rehoboam
was
established
and
he
was
strong,
he
abandoned
the
law
of
the
LORD,
and
all
Israel
with
him.
12:2 In
the
fifth
year
of
King
Rehoboam,
because
they
had
been
unfaithful
to
the
LORD,
Shishak
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem
12:3 with
1,200
chariots
and
60,000
horsemen.
And
the
people
were
without
number
who
came
with
him
from
Egypt--Libyans,
Sukkiim,
and
Ethiopians.
12:4 And
he
took
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah
and
came
as
far
as
Jerusalem.
12:5 Then
Shemaiah
the
prophet
came
to
Rehoboam
and
to
the
princes
of
Judah,
who
had
gathered
at
Jerusalem
because
of
Shishak,
and
said
to
them,
"Thus
says
the
LORD,
'You
abandoned
me,
so
I
have
abandoned
you
to
the
hand
of
Shishak.'"
12:6 Then
the
princes
of
Israel
and
the
king
humbled
themselves
and
said,
"The
LORD
is
righteous."
12:7 When
the
LORD
saw
that
they
humbled
themselves,
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
Shemaiah:
"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.
12:8 Nevertheless,
they
shall
be
servants
to
him,
that
they
may
know
my
service
and
the
service
of
the
kingdoms
of
the
countries."
12:9 So
Shishak
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem.
He
took
away
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
the
LORD
and
the
treasures
of
the
king's
house.
He
took
away
everything.
He
also
took
away
the
shields
of
gold
that
Solomon
had
made,
12:10 and
King
Rehoboam
made
in
their
place
shields
of
bronze
and
committed
them
to
the
hands
of
the
officers
of
the
guard,
who
kept
the
door
of
the
king's
house.
12:11 And
as
often
as
the
king
went
into
the
house
of
the
LORD,
the
guard
came
and
carried
them
and
brought
them
back
to
the
guardroom.
12:12 And
when
he
humbled
himself
the
wrath
of
the
LORD
turned
from
him,
so
as
not
to
make
a
complete
destruction.
Moreover,
conditions
were
good
in
Judah.
12:13 So
King
Rehoboam
grew
strong
in
Jerusalem
and
reigned.
Rehoboam
was
forty-one
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
seventeen
years
in
Jerusalem,
the
city
that
the
LORD
had
chosen
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
put
his
name
there.
His
mother's
name
was
Naamah
the
Ammonite.
12:14 And
he
did
evil,
for
he
did
not
set
his
heart
to
seek
the
LORD.
12:15 Now
the
acts
of
Rehoboam,
from
first
to
last,
are
they
not
written
in
the
chronicles
of
Shemaiah
the
prophet
and
of
Iddo
the
seer
There
were
continual
wars
between
Rehoboam
and
Jeroboam.
12:16 And
Rehoboam
slept
with
his
fathers
and
was
buried
in
the
city
of
David,
and
Abijah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.