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2 Chronicles 12 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Shishak Attacks Jerusalem

(1Ki 14:25–28 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:1 - After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel[fn] with him abandoned the law of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:2 - Because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[fn] that came with him from Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:4 - he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:5 - 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 LORD says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:6 - The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is just.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:7 - When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the LORD 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:8 - They will, however, become subject to him, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving the kings of other lands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:9 - When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:10 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:11 - Whenever the king went to the LORD’s temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:12 - Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the LORD’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.
(1Ki 14:21, 22, 29–31 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:13 - 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 LORD 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:14 - He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:15 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:16 - Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV Footnotes
That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles
That is, people from the upper Nile region
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2 Chronicles Chapter 12 — Additional Translations:

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