2 Chronicles 12 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Shishak of Egypt Invades Judah

(1Ki 14:25–28 )

When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him abandoned the law of the LORD.

2Ch 12:2And it came about in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, that [fn]Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

2Ch 12:3

2Ch 12:3with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. The people who came with him from Egypt were beyond counting—the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the [fn]Ethiopians.

2Ch 12:4

2Ch 12:4Shishak took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

2Ch 12:5

2Ch 12:5Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the LORD: ‘You have abandoned (turned away from) Me, so I have abandoned you into the hands of Shishak.’”

2Ch 12:6

2Ch 12:6Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

2Ch 12:7

When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves so I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some measure of a remnant [that escapes]; and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak.

2Ch 12:8

2Ch 12:8“Nevertheless they will become his slaves, so that they may know [the difference between] My service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”

Plunder Impoverishes Judah

2Ch 12:9

So Shishak king of Egypt went up against Jerusalem; he took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house (palace). He took everything. He even took the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

2Ch 12:10

2Ch 12:10In their place King Rehoboam made shields of bronze and entrusted them to the care of the officers of the guard who guarded the door of the king’s house.

2Ch 12:11

2Ch 12:11And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards came and carried the shields and then brought them back into the guards’ room.

2Ch 12:12

2Ch 12:12When Rehoboam humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also conditions were good in Judah.

(1Ki 14:21, 22, 29–31 )

2Ch 12:13

So King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city in which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His Name. And his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess.

2Ch 12:14

2Ch 12:14He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek and worship and honor the LORD.

2Ch 12:15

Now the acts of Rehoboam, from the first to the last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to genealogical enrollment? There were wars between Rehoboam [of Judah] and Jeroboam [of Israel] continually.

2Ch 12:16

2Ch 12:16And Rehoboam slept with his fathers [in death] and was buried in the City of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.

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AMP Footnotes

(12:2)

Shishak established the 22nd dynasty and ruled Egypt from 945-924 B.C. His invasion of the kingdom of Judah is recorded at the temple complex of Karnak (Thebes), near Luxor, Egypt. Shishak was the pharaoh who had given refuge to Jeroboam during the final years of Solomon’s reign.

(12:3)

Ancient Ethiopia was south of Egypt and included portions of modern Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.

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