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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_chronicles/12.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Shishak Attacks Jerusalem</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles">a</a></sup></span> with him abandoned the law of the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Because they had been unfaithful to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, people from the upper Nile region">b</a></sup></span> that came with him from Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The <span class="name">Lord</span> is just.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the <span class="name">Lord</span> saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They will, however, become subject to him, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving the kings of other lands.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Whenever the king went to the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the <span class="name">Lord</span> had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As for the events of Rehoboam’s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that deal with genealogies? There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, people from the upper Nile region</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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