2 Chronicles 12

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Egypt Plunders Jerusalem

1 1When the rule of Rehoboam was established 2and he was strong, 3he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
2 4In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, 5Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem
3 with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt--6Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.
4 And he took 7the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
5 Then 8Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, 9'You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.'"
6 Then the princes of 10Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, 11"The LORD is righteous."
7 When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: 12"They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, 13and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
8 Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, 14that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."
9 15So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away 16the shields of gold that Solomon had made,
10 and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
11 And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard came and carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.
12 And when 17he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, 18conditions were good[a] in Judah.
13 19So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
14 And he did evil, 20for he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
15 21Now the acts of Rehoboam, 22from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of 23Shemaiah the prophet and of 24Iddo 25the seer?[b] There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and 26Abijah[c] his son reigned in his place.

Cross References 26

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 11:17
  • 2. 2 Chronicles 26:16
  • 3. See 1 Kings 14:22-24
  • 4. 1 Kings 14:25
  • 5. 1 Kings 11:40
  • 6. 2 Chronicles 16:8; Nahum 3:9; [Daniel 11:43]
  • 7. See 2 Chronicles 11:5-12
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 11:2; 1 Kings 12:22
  • 9. [2 Chronicles 15:2]
  • 10. [2 Chronicles 21:2]
  • 11. Exodus 9:27
  • 12. [2 Chronicles 7:14; 1 Kings 21:29; James 4:10]
  • 13. [2 Chronicles 34:25]
  • 14. [Deuteronomy 28:47, 48; Isaiah 26:13]
  • 15. For ver. 9-11, see 1 Kings 14:26-28
  • 16. 2 Chronicles 9:15, 16; 1 Kings 10:16, 17
  • 17. [2 Chronicles 7:14; 1 Kings 21:29; James 4:10]
  • 18. [2 Chronicles 19:3]
  • 19. 1 Kings 14:21
  • 20. [2 Chronicles 19:3]
  • 21. [1 Kings 14:29]
  • 22. 2 Chronicles 9:29; 1 Chronicles 29:29
  • 23. ver. 5; 1 Kings 12:22
  • 24. 2 Chronicles 9:29; 2 Chronicles 13:22
  • 25. See 1 Samuel 9:9
  • 26. [1 Kings 14:31]

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Hebrew good things were found
  • [b]. After seer, Hebrew adds according to genealogy
  • [c]. Spelled Abijam in 1 Kings 14:31

2 Chronicles 12 Commentaries

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