| 12:1 |
And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established
the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the
law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
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| 12:2 |
And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
because they had transgressed against the LORD,
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| 12:3 |
With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand
horsemen: and the people were without number that came
with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the
Ethiopians.
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| 12:4 |
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to
Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
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| 12:5 |
Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to
the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to
Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus
saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I
also left you in the hand of Shishak.
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| 12:6 |
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled
themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
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| 12:7 |
And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves,
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; and my wrath
shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of
Shishak.
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| 12:8 |
Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they
may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of
the countries.
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| 12:9 |
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 all: he
carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had
made.
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| 12:10 |
Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass,
and committed them to the hands of the chief of the
guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.
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| 12:11 |
And when the king entered into the house of the LORD,
the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again
into the guard chamber.
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| 12:12 |
And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD
turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether:
and also in Judah things went well.
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| 12:13 |
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem,
and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all
the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his
mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
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| 12:14 |
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to
seek the LORD.
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| 12:15 |
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they
not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of
Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars
between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
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| 12:16 |
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried
in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his
stead.
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