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And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, You have forsaken Me, so I also have forsaken you to Shishak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, The L<font size="1">ORD</font> is righteous.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>When the L<font size="1">ORD</font> saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves <i>so</i> I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some <i>measure</i> of deliverance, and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>But they will become his slaves so that they may learn <i>the difference between</i> My service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Plunder Impoverishes Judah</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> and the treasures of the kings palace. He took everything; he even took the golden shields which Solomon had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the door of the kings house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>As often as the king entered the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the guards came and carried them and <i>then</i> brought them back into the guards room. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>And when he humbled himself, the anger of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> turned away from him, so as not to destroy <i>him</i> completely; and also conditions were good in Judah.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mothers name was Naamah the Ammonitess. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to genealogical enrollment? And <i>there were</i> wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/12-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and his son Abijah became king in his place.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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