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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 Legacy Standard Bible</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="../">LSB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/2_chronicles/12.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Shishak of Egypt Comes Against Judah</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now it happened that when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him forsook the law of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to Yahweh, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now 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 Yahweh, ‘You have forsaken Me, so I also have forsaken you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to Shishak.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “Yahweh is righteous.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves <i>so</i> I will not bring them to ruin, but I will grant them some <i>measure</i> of escape, and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But they will become his slaves so that they may know <i>the difference between</i> My slavery and the slavery of the kingdoms of the countries.” <p class="hdg">Shishak Takes from Yahweh’s House</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the house of Yahweh and the treasures of the king’s house. He took everything; he even took the shields of gold which Solomon had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the hand of the commanders of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>guard who kept the door of the king’s house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now it happened that as often as the king entered the house of Yahweh, the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>guards would come and carry them and <i>then</i> bring them back into the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>guards’ room. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And when he humbled himself, the anger of Yahweh turned away from him, so as not to ruin <i>him</i> completely; and also conditions were good in Judah. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he did evil because he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to genealogical record? Now <i>there were</i> wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all <i>their</i> days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>in the hand of</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>runners</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>runners</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>runners</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Lit <i>words</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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