1 Egypt Attacks Judah Now 2 Chr. 11:17 it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that 1 Kin. 14:22–24 he forsook the law of the Lord , and all Israel along with him.
2 1 Kin. 11:40; 14:25 And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord ,
3 with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt— 2 Chr. 16:8; Nah. 3:9 the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.
4 And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.
5 Then 2 Chr. 11:2 Shemaiah 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 the Lord : ‘You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.’ ”
6 So the leaders of Israel and the king (James 4:10) humbled themselves; and they said, Ex. 9:27; (Dan. 9:14) “The Lord is righteous.”
7 Now when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, 1 Kin. 21:28, 29 the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; therefore I 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 Nevertheless Is. 26:13 they will be his servants, that they may distinguish (Deut. 28:47, 48) My service from the service of the kingdoms of the nations.”
9 1 Kin. 14:25, 26 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took everything. He also carried away the gold shields which Solomon had 1 Kin. 10:16, 17;2 Chr. 9:15, 16 made.
10 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed them 1 Kin. 14:27 to 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 the Lord , 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 the Lord turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and things also went well in Judah.
13 The End of Rehoboam’s Reign Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now 1 Kin. 14:21 Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, 2 Chr. 6:6 the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s name was Naamah, an 1 Kin. 11:1, 5 Ammonitess.
14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord .
15 The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, 2 Chr. 9:29; 13:22 and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? 1 Kin. 14:30 And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
16 So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then 2 Chr. 11:20–22 Abijah his son reigned in his place.