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Text -- 2 Chronicles 12:1-15 (NET)
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12:1 After Rehoboam’s rule was established and solidified , he and all Israel rejected the law of the Lord .
12:2 Because they were unfaithful to the Lord , in King Rehoboam’s fifth year , King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem .
12:3 He had 1,200 chariots , 60,000 horsemen , and an innumerable number of soldiers who accompanied him from Egypt , including Libyans , Sukkites , and Cushites .
12:4 He captured the fortified cities of Judah and marched against Jerusalem .
12:5 Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak . He said to them, “This is what the Lord says : ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak .’”
12:6 The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said , “The Lord is just .”
12:7 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah : “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon . My anger will not be unleashed against Jerusalem through Shishak .
12:8 Yet they will become his subjects , so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations .”
12:9 King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace ; he took everything , including the gold shields that Solomon had made .
12:10 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace .
12:11 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple , the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom .
12:12 So when Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; Judah experienced some good things .
12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem ; he was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem , the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite named Naamah .
12:14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the Lord .
12:15 The events of Rehoboam’s reign, from start to finish , are recorded in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that include genealogical records .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Shishak |
Rehoboam |
Israel |
War |
Repentance |
God |
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF |
Shemaiah |
TEMPLE, A1 |
Egyptians |
Iddo |
EGYPT |
Jerusalem |
Chariot |
Backsliders |
LUBIM |
AMMONITESS |
SUKKIIM |
Megiddo |
Sukkiims |
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