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12:1 After Rehoboam’s <07346> rule <04438> was <01961> established <03559> and solidified <02393>, he and all <03605> Israel <03478> rejected <05800> the law <08451> of the Lord <03068>. 12:2 Because <03588> they were unfaithful <04603> to the Lord <03068>, in King <04428> Rehoboam’s <07346> fifth <02549> year <08141>, King <04428> Shishak <07895> of Egypt <04714> attacked <05921> <05927> Jerusalem <03389>. 12:3 He had 1,200 <03967> <0505> chariots <07393>, 60,000 <0505> <08346> horsemen <06571>, and an innumerable number <04557> <0369> of soldiers <05971> who accompanied <0935> him from <05973> Egypt <04714>, including Libyans <03864>, Sukkites <05525>, and Cushites <03569>. 12:4 He captured <03920> the fortified <04694> cities <05892> of Judah <03063> and marched <0935> against Jerusalem <03389>. 12:5 Shemaiah <08098> the prophet <05030> visited <0935> Rehoboam <07346> and the leaders <08269> of Judah <03063> who <0834> were assembled <0622> in <0413> Jerusalem <03389> because <06440> of Shishak <07895>. He said <0559> to them, “This is what <03541> the Lord <03068> says <0559>: ‘You <0859> have rejected <05800> me, so <0637> I <0589> have rejected <05800> you and will hand <03027> you over to Shishak <07895>.’” 12:6 The leaders <08269> of Israel <03478> and the king <04428> humbled <03665> themselves and said <0559>, “The Lord <03068> is just <06662>.” 12:7 When the Lord <03068> saw <07200> that <03588> they humbled <03665> themselves, he <03068> gave <01961> this message <01697> to <0413> Shemaiah <08098>: “They have humbled <03665> themselves, so I will not <03808> destroy <07843> them. I will deliver <06413> <05414> them <01992> soon <04592>. My anger <02534> will not <03808> be unleashed <05413> against Jerusalem <03389> through <03027> Shishak <07895>. 12:8 Yet <03588> they will become <01961> his subjects <05650>, so they can experience <03045> how serving <05656> me differs from serving <05656> the surrounding <0776> nations <04467>.” 12:9 King <04428> Shishak <07895> of Egypt <04714> attacked <05927> Jerusalem <03389> and took away <03947> the treasures <0214> of the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> and of the royal <04428> palace <01004>; he took <03947> everything <03605>, including the gold <02091> shields <04043> that <0834> Solomon <08010> had made <06213>. 12:10 King <04428> Rehoboam <07346> made <06213> bronze <05178> shields <04043> to replace <08478> them and assigned <06485> them to <05921> the officers <08269> of the royal guard <07323> who protected <08104> the entrance <06607> to the royal <04428> palace <01004>. 12:11 Whenever <01767> <01961> the king <04428> visited <0935> the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>, the royal guards <07323> carried <05375> them and then brought <07725> them back <07725> to <0413> the guardroom <07323> <08372>. 12:12 So when Rehoboam humbled <03665> himself, the Lord <03068> relented <07725> from <04480> his anger <0639> and did not <03808> annihilate <03617> <07843> him; Judah <03063> experienced <01961> some good <02896> things <01697>. 12:13 King <04428> Rehoboam <07346> solidified <02388> his rule <04427> in Jerusalem <03389>; he was forty-one <0259> <0705> years <08141> old <01121> when he became king <07346> and he ruled <04427> for seventeen <06240> <07651> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>, the city <05892> the Lord <03068> chose <0977> from all <03605> the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478> to be his home. Rehoboam’s mother <0517> was an Ammonite <05985> named <08034> Naamah <05279>. 12:14 He did <06213> evil <07451> because <03588> he was not <03808> determined <03820> <03559> to follow <01875> the Lord <03068>. 12:15 The events <01697> of Rehoboam’s <07346> reign, from start <07223> to finish <0314>, are <01992> recorded <03789> in the Annals <01697> of Shemaiah <08098> the prophet <05030> and of Iddo <05714> the seer <02374> that include genealogical records <03187>.

• 2Ch 11:5--12:16 -- Rehoboam's Reign

• Shishak

  [isbe] SHISHAK - shi'-shak (shishaq (1 Ki 14:25); Sousakeim): 1. Shishak, 952-930 BC: Sheshonk or Sheshenq I, as he is called on the monuments, the founder of the XXIInd Dynasty, was in all probability of Libyan origin. It is possi...
  [smith] king of Egypt, the Sheshonk I. of the monuments, first sovereign of the Bubastite twenty-second dynasty. His reign offers the first determined syncronism of Egyptian and hebrew history. The first year of Shishak would about c...
  [nave] SHISHAK, king of Egypt. Gives asylum to Jeroboam, 1 Kin. 11:40. Spoils Jerusalem, 1 Kin. 14:25, 26; 2 Chr. 12:2-9.
  

• Rehoboam

  [ebd] he enlarges the people, the successor of Solomon on the throne, and apparently his only son. He was the son of Naamah "the Ammonitess," some well-known Ammonitish princess (1 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 12:13). He was forty-one year...
  [isbe] REHOBOAM - re-ho-bo'-am (rechabh`am, "the people is enlarged," or perhaps "Am is wide" Rhoboam; "Roboam," Mt 1:7 the King James Version): 1. The Disruption of the Kingdom 2. Underlying Causes of Disruption 3. Shemaiah Forbid...
  [smith] (enlarger of the people), son of Solomon by the Ammonite princess Naamah, (1 Kings 14:21,31) and his successor. (1 Kings 11:43) Rehoboam selected Shechem as the place of his coronation (B.C. 975), probably as an act of ...
  [nave] REHOBOAM Successor to Solomon as king, 1 Kin. 11:43; 2 Chr. 9:31. Refuses to reform abuses, 1 Kin. 12:1-15; 2 Chr. 10:1-15. Ten tribes, under leadership of Jeroboam, successfully revolt from, 1 Kin. 12:16-24; 2 Chr. 10:16-...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• War

  [nave] WAR Divine approval of, 2 Sam. 22:35. Civil, Judg. 12:1-6; 20; 2 Sam. 2:12-31; 3:1; 20; 1 Kin. 14:30; 16:21; Isa. 19:2; forbidden, 2 Chr. 11:4; averted, Josh. 22:11-34. Enemy harangued by general of opposing side, 2 Kin. 1...
  

• Repentance

  [nave] REPENTANCE Attributed to God, Gen. 6:6, 7; Ex. 32:14; Deut. 32:36; Judg. 2:18; 1 Sam. 15:11, 29, 35; 2 Sam. 24:16; 1 Chr. 21:15; Psa. 106:45; 110:4; 135:14; Jer. 15:6; 18:8, 10; 26:3; 42:10; Joel 2:13; Amos 7:3, 6; Jonah 3:9...
  

• God

  [nave] GOD. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Access to; Compassion of; Creator; Creator of Mankind; Eternity of; Faithfulness of; Fatherhood of; Favor of; Foreknowledge of; Glory of; Goodness of...
  

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

  [ebd] The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., "Acts of the Days." This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version "Chronicon," and hence "Chronicles." In the Sep...
  [isbe] CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF - kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim, "The Words of the Days"; Septuagint paraleipomenon: 1. The Name 2. The Position of Chronicles in the Old Testament 3. Two Books, or One? 4. The Contents 5. Sources Bibl...
  

• Shemaiah

  [isbe] SHEMAIAH - she-ma'-ya, she-mi'-a (shema`yah (in 2 Ch 11:2; 17:8; 31:15; 35:9; Jer 26:20; 29:24; 36:12, shema`yahu), "Jahveh hears"): The name is most frequently borne by priests, Levites and prophets. (1) Codex Vaticanus Sam...
  [smith] (heard by Jehovah). A prophet in the reign of Rehoboam. (1 Kings 12:22; 2 Chronicles 11:2) (B.C. 972.) He wrote a chronicle containing the events of Rehoboam?s reign. (2 Chronicles 12:5,15) The son of Shechaniah, am...
  [nave] SHEMAIAH 1. A prophet in the time of Rehoboam. Prevents Rehoboam from war with Jeroboam, 1 Kin. 12:22-24; 2 Chr. 11:2-4. Prophesies the punishment of Rehoboam by Shishak, king of Egypt, 2 Chr. 12:5, 7. Writes chronicles, 2...
  

• TEMPLE, A1

  [isbe] TEMPLE, A1 - tem'-p'l (hekhal, "palace"; sometimes, as in 1 Ki 6:3,5, etc.; Ezek 41:1,15 ff, used for "the holy place" only; bayith, "house," thus always in the Revised Version (British and American); hieron, naos): A. STRUC...
  

• Egyptians

  [nave] EGYPTIANS Descendants of the Mizraim, Gen. 10:6, 13, 14. Wisdom of, 1 Kin. 4:30. The art of embalming the dead practiced by, Gen. 50:2, 3, 26. Hospitality of, to Abraham, Gen. 12:10-20. Slaves bought by, Gen. 37:36. Opp...
  

• Iddo

  [ebd] (1.) Timely (1 Chr. 6:21). A Gershonite Levite. (2.) Lovely. The son of Zechariah (1 Chr. 27:21), the ruler of Manasseh in David's time. (3.) Timely. The father of Ahinadab, who was one of Solomon's purveyors (1 Kings 4:14)....
  [isbe] IDDO - id'-o: (1) ('iddo (?[~'adhadh, "to be strong"), "hap," "happy" (?), Ezr 8:17): The "chief at the place Casiphia," who provided Ezra with Levites and Nethinim, the head of the Levitical body or school, said to be one o...
  [nave] IDDO 1. Father of Ahinadab, 1 Kin. 4:14. 2. A descendant of Gershom, 1 Chr. 6:21. 3. A son of Zechariah, 1 Chr. 27:21. 4. A prophet, 2 Chr. 9:29; 12:15; 13:22. 5. Ancestor of Zechariah, Ezra 5:1; 6:14; Zech. 1:1, 7. 6. ...
  

• EGYPT

  [isbe] EGYPT - e'-jipt: I. THE COUNTRY 1. The Basis of the Land 2. The Nile Valley 3. Earliest Human Remains 4. Climate 5. Conditions of Life 6. The Nile 7. The Fauna 8. The Flora 9. The Prehistoric Races II. THE HISTORY 1. 1st and...
  

• Jerusalem

  [ebd] called also Salem, Ariel, Jebus, the "city of God," the "holy city;" by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning "the holy;" once "the city of Judah" (2 Chr. 25:28). This name is in the original in the dual form, and means "posses...
  [nave] JERUSALEM Called Jebus, Josh. 18:28; Judg. 19:10; Zion, 1 Kin. 8:1; Zech. 9:13; City of David, 2 Sam. 5:7; Isa. 22:9; Salem, Gen. 14:18; Psa. 76:2; Ariel, Isa. 29:1; City of God, Psa. 46:4; City of the Great King, Psa. 48:2;...
  

• Chariot

  [nave] CHARIOT For war, Ex. 14:7, 9, 25; Josh. 11:4; 1 Sam. 13:5; 1 Kin. 20:1, 25; 2 Kin. 6:14; 2 Chr. 12:2, 3; Psa. 20:7; 46:9; Jer. 46:9; 47:3; 51:21; Joel 2:5; Nah. 2:3, 4; 3:2. Wheels of Pharaoh's, providentially taken off, Ex...
  

• Backsliders

  [nave] BACKSLIDERS. Lev. 26:14-42; Deut. 4:9; Deut. 8:11-14; Deut. 28:58, 59, 63 vs. 15-68;; 1 Kin. 9:6-9; Deut. 29:18 vs. 18-28.; Deut. 32:15-30; Josh. 24:27 vs. 20-27.; 2 Chr. 15:2-4; Ezra 8:22; Job 34:26, 27; Psa. 44:20, 21; Ps...
  

• LUBIM

  [isbe] LUBIM - lu'-bim (lubhim): A people mentioned in the Old Testament (2 Ch 12:3; 16:8; Dan 11:43; Nah 3:9). In all these cases the word is translated in the King James Version "Libyans"; in the Revised Version (British and Amer...
  [smith] (dwellers in a thirsty land),a nation mentioned as contributing, together with Cushites and Sukkiim, to Shishak?s army, (2 Chronicles 12:3) and apparently as forming with Cushites the bulk of Zerah?s army, (2 Chronicles...
  

• AMMONITESS

  [isbe] AMMONITESS - am-on-i'-tes, a-mon'-i-tes (`ammonith): A woman of the Ammonites, Naamah, the mother of Rehoboam (1 Ki 14:21,31; 2 Ch 12:13; 24:26).
  [smith] a woman of Ammonite race. (1 Kings 14:21,31; 2 Chronicles 12:13)
  

• SUKKIIM

  [isbe] SUKKIIM - suk'-i-im (cukkiyim): Named in 2 Ch 12:3 as a tribe that took part with Libyans and Cretans in the invasion of Judea by Shishak. The identification is uncertain.
  [smith] (booth-dwellers), a nation mentioned (2 Chronicles 12:3) with the Lubim and Cushim as supplying part of the army which came with Shishak out of Egypt when he invaded Judah. The Sukkiim may correspond to some one of the she...
  

• Megiddo

  [ebd] place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites till the time of Solomon (1...
  

• Sukkiims

  [ebd] dwellers in tents, (Vulg. and LXX., "troglodites;" i.e., cave-dwellers in the hills along the Red Sea). Shiskak's army, with which he marched against Jerusalem, was composed partly of this tribe (2 Chr. 12:3).
  [nave] SUKKIIMS, an African race. Invaded Judah with Shishak, 2 Chr. 12:3.
  

• Shishak's Attack

  

• Rehoboam's Government

  

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