Thematic Bible
2 Chronicles 12:1 (show verse)
And when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and when he was strengthened, he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.
2 Chronicles 12:2 (show verse)
And it happened [that] in the fifth year of King Rehoboam (for they had acted unfaithfully against Yahweh), Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem
2 Chronicles 12:3 (show verse)
with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And there was no number to the people who came up with him from Egypt--Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
2 Chronicles 12:4 (show verse)
And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and he came up to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 12:5 (show verse)
Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem from before Shishak. And he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'You yourselves have abandoned me, and I myself have surely abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.'"
2 Chronicles 12:6 (show verse)
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh [is] righteous."
2 Chronicles 12:7 (show verse)
And when Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy. I will give to them some way of escape, that my anger not be poured out against Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:8 (show verse)
However, they shall be his servants, that they might know my service and the service of the kingdoms of [other] countries."
2 Chronicles 12:9 (show verse)
Then Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and he took the treasures out of the house of Yahweh and the treasures out of the king's house. He took everything. He also took the small shields of gold that Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 12:10 (show verse)
And King Rehoboam made small shields of bronze in their place and committed them into the hand of the commanders of the guards who were keeping the entrance of the house of the king.
2 Chronicles 12:11 (show verse)
And whenever the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guards came and carried them, and then they returned them to the alcove of the guards.
2 Chronicles 12:12 (show verse)
And when he humbled himself, the anger of Yahweh was turned away from him, so that he did not destroy [the city] completely. Moreover, matters were well in Judah.
2 Chronicles 12:13 (show verse)
So King Rehoboam was strengthened in Jerusalem, and he reigned [there]. Now, Rehoboam [was] forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother [was] Naamah the Ammonite.
2 Chronicles 12:14 (show verse)
And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 12:15 (show verse)
Now the words of Rehoboam [from] the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer as a record? And [there were] battles [between] Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
2 Chronicles 12:16 (show verse)
And Rehoboam slept with his ancestors, and he was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place.