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And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
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And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord)
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With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.
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And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.
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And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of Juda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and he said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left you in the hand of Sesac.
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And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation, said: The Lord is just.
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And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the Lord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.
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But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.
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So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king’s house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made,
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Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the palace.
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And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their armoury.