2 Chronicles 12:9-16

Plunder Impoverishes Judah

9 ¹So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's palace. He took everything; ²he even took the golden shields which Solomon had made.

10 Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the door of the king's house.

11 As often as the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards came and carried them and then brought them back into the guards' room.

12 And ³when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also conditions ⁴were good in Judah.

13 ⁵So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one * years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen * years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

14 He did evil ⁶because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

15 ⁷Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of ⁸Shemaiah the prophet and of ⁹Iddo the seer, according to genealogical enrollment? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually *.

16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and his son ¹⁰Abijah became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 12:9-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 12

Rehoboam and his people forsaking the law of the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt is allowed by God to invade his land, and take his fenced cities, 2Ch 12:1-4, upon which a prophet of the Lord was sent to him and his princes, to show them the reason of it; whereupon they humbled themselves, and the Lord was pleased not to allow the enemy utterly to destroy them, yet to reduce them to servitude, and take away their riches, 2Ch 12:5-12, and the chapter is closed with an account of the reign and death of Rehoboam, 2Ch 12:13-16.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Kings 14:26-28
• 2. 1 Kings 10:16, 17; 2 Chronicles 9:15, 16
• 3. 2 Chronicles 12:6, 7
• 4. 2 Chronicles 19:3
• 5. 1 Kings 14:21
• 6. 2 Chronicles 19:3
• 7. 1 Kings 14:29
• 8. 2 Chronicles 12:5
• 9. 2 Chronicles 9:29
• 10. 2 Chronicles 11:20

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "hands"
• [b]. Lit "runners"
• [c]. Lit "runners"
• [d]. Lit "runners"
• [e]. Lit "words"