2 Chronicles 12:7-16

12:7 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: ¹  “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon. ²  My anger will not be unleashed against ³  Jerusalem through ⁴  Shishak. 12:8 Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.” ⁵ 

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 ⁶  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. ⁷ 

12:12 So when Rehoboam ⁸  humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; ⁹  Judah experienced some good things. ¹⁰  12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; ¹¹  he ¹²  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. ¹³  Rehoboam’s ¹⁴  mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. 12:14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the Lord. ¹⁵ 

12:15 The events of Rehoboam’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded ¹⁶  in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that include genealogical records. 12:16 Then Rehoboam passed away ¹⁷  and was buried in the City of David. ¹⁸  His son Abijah replaced him as king.

[12:7]  ¹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying.”

[12:7]  ² tn Heb “and I will give to them soon deliverance.”

[12:7]  ³ tn Or “gush forth upon.”

[12:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[12:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “so they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.”

[12:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “runners” (also in v. 11).

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “to the chamber of the runners.”

[12:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord turned from him and did not destroy completely.”

[12:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”

[12:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”

[12:13]  ¹² tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

[12:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

[12:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.”

[12:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “As for the events of Rehoboam, the former and the latter, are they not written?”

[12:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[12:16]  ¹⁸ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.