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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="/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="/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="/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 color="#000000"><b><i>Plunder Impoverishes Judah</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/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="/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="/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="/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="/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="/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="/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="/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><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_chronicles/12.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Ye have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_chronicles/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of Juda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and he said to them : Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left you in the hand of Sesac. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_chronicles/12.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah that had gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus saith Jehovah: Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_chronicles/12.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Now Shemaiah the prophet came 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, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_chronicles/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were assembled at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_chronicles/12.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, 'You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_chronicles/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Shemaiah the prophet hath come in unto Rehoboam and the heads of Judah who have been gathered unto Jerusalem from the presence of Shishak, and saith to them, 'Thus said Jehovah, Ye have forsaken Me, and also, I have left you in the hand of Shishak;'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/contrasted_services.htm">Contrasted Services</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'They shall be his servants: that they may know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.'--2 Chron. xii. 8. Rehoboam was a self-willed, godless king who, like some other kings, learned nothing by experience. His kingdom was nearly wrecked at the very beginning of his reign, and was saved much more by the folly of his rival than by his own wisdom. Jeroboam's religious revolution drove all the worshippers of God among the northern kingdom into flight. They might have endured the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/contrasted_services.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_6_the_rending_of.htm">The Rending of the Kingdom</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead." 1 Kings 11:43. Soon after his accession to the throne, Rehoboam went to Shechem, where he expected to receive formal recognition from all the tribes. "To Shechem were all Israel come to make him king." 2 Chronicles 10:1. Among those present was Jeroboam the son of Nebat --the same Jeroboam who during Solomon's reign had been known as "a mighty man of valor," and to whom the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_6_the_rending_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm">Chronicles</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">2 Chronicles 12:5 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">2 Chronicles 12:5 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">2 Chronicles 12:5 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">2 Chronicles 12:5 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">2 Chronicles 12:5 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">2 Chronicles 12:5 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">2 Chronicles 12:5 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_chronicles/12-4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 12:4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 12:4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_chronicles/12-6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 12:6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 12:6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_chronicles/12-5.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>