Egypt Plunders Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 12

1 Now a it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that b he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel along with him. 2 c And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, 3 with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt - d the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem. 5 Then e Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD: 'You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.' " 6 So the leaders of Israel and the king f humbled themselves; and they said, g "The LORD is righteous." 7 Now when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, h the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 8 "Nevertheless i they will be his servants, that they may distinguish j My service from the service of the kingdoms of the nations."

9 k So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took everything. He also carried away the gold shields which Solomon had l made. 10 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed them m to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king's house. 11 And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guard would go and bring them out; then they would take them back into the guardroom. 12 When he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and things also went well in Judah.

13 Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now n Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, o the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name was Naamah, an p Ammonitess. 14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD.

15 The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, q and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? r And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 16 So Rehoboam 1 rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then s Abijah 2 his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 11:17
    So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:22 - 24
    Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:40
    Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
    1 Kings 14:25
    It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
  4. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 16:8
    Were the Ethiopians and the Lubim not a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.
    Nahum 3:9
    Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, And it was boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers.
  5. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 11:2
    But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying.
  6. Cross References
    James 4:10
    Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 9:27
    And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. The LORD is righteous, and my people and I are wicked.
    Daniel 9:14
    Therefore the LORD has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.
  8. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:28
    And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying.
    1 Kings 21:29
    "See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house."
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:13
    O LORD our God, masters besides You Have had dominion over us; But by You only we make mention of Your name.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:47
    Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything.
    Deuteronomy 28:48
    Therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
  11. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:25
    It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
    1 Kings 14:26
    And 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 all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
  12. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:16
    And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
    1 Kings 10:17
    He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
    2 Chronicles 9:15
    And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
    2 Chronicles 9:16
    He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  13. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:27
    Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king's house.
  14. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:21
    And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
  15. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:6
    'Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'
  16. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:1
    But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites -
    1 Kings 11:5
    For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  17. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 9:29
    Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
    2 Chronicles 13:22
    Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written in the annals of the prophet Iddo.
  18. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:30
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
  19. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 11:20 - 22
    After her he took Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
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