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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Chronicles 12 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 2 Chronicles 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/11.htm" title="2 Chronicles 11">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 12 <a href="../2_chronicles/13.htm" title="2 Chronicles 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">An Egyptian Invasion of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1KI 14:25-28">1 Kings 14.25-28</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v14_12_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.1" class="v14_12_1">1</span>As soon as Rehoboam had established his authority as king, he and all his people abandoned the Law of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v14_12_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.2" class="v14_12_2">2</span>In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign their disloyalty to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was punished. King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem </span><span class="v14_12_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.3" class="v14_12_3">3</span>with an army of twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand cavalry, and more soldiers than could be counted, including Libyan, Sukkite, and Ethiopian<a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.12.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> troops. </span><span class="v14_12_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.4" class="v14_12_4">4</span>He captured the fortified cities of Judah and advanced as far as Jerusalem.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_12_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.5" class="v14_12_5">5</span>Shemaiah the prophet went to King Rehoboam and the Judean leaders who had gathered in Jerusalem to escape Shishak. He said to them, “This is the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s message to you: ‘You have abandoned me, so now I have abandoned you to Shishak.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_12_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.6" class="v14_12_6">6</span>The king and the leaders admitted that they had sinned, and they said, “What the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is doing is just.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_12_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.7" class="v14_12_7">7</span>When the <span class="nd">Lord</span> saw this, he spoke again to Shemaiah and said to him, “Because they admit their sin, I will not destroy them. But when Shishak attacks, they will barely survive. Jerusalem will not feel the full force of my anger, </span><span class="v14_12_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.8" class="v14_12_8">8</span>but Shishak will conquer them, and they will learn the difference between serving me and serving earthly rulers.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_12_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.9" class="v14_12_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.12.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> King Shishak came to Jerusalem and took the treasures from the Temple and from the palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that King Solomon had made. </span><span class="v14_12_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.10" class="v14_12_10">10</span>To replace them, Rehoboam made bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates. </span><span class="v14_12_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.11" class="v14_12_11">11</span>Every time the king went to the Temple, the guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom. </span><span class="v14_12_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.12" class="v14_12_12">12</span>Because he submitted to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s anger did not completely destroy him, and things went well for Judah.</span></p><h3 class="s">Summary of Rehoboam's Reign</h3><p class="par"><span class="v14_12_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.13" class="v14_12_13">13</span>Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem and increased his power as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, from the land of Ammon. </span><span class="v14_12_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.14" class="v14_12_14">14</span>He did what was evil, because he did not try to find the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s will.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_12_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.15" class="v14_12_15">15</span>Rehoboam's acts from beginning to end and his family records are found in <span class="bk">The History of Shemaiah the Prophet</span> and <span class="bk">The History of Iddo the Prophet</span>. Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly at war with each other. </span><span class="v14_12_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.12.16" class="v14_12_16">16</span>Rehoboam died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City and his son Abijah succeeded him as king.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">12.3: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Cushite(s): </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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