1And it happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and when he had become strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.
2And it happened, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem — because they had acted unfaithfully against Yahweh —
3with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.
4And he captured the fortified cities that belonged to Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
5And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the officials of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh: You have forsaken me, and so I also have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.”
6And the officials of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
7And when Yahweh saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them. I will grant them a little escape, and my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
8But they will become his servants, so that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.”
9So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh and the treasures of the king’s house — he took everything. He took the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
10And King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and he committed them to the hand of the officers of the runners who guarded the entrance of the king’s house.
11And it happened, whenever the king went into the house of Yahweh, the runners came and carried them, then returned them to the guardroom of the runners.
12And because he humbled himself, the anger of Yahweh turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also in Judah conditions were good.
13So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
14And he did evil, because he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh.
15Now the deeds of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, regarding genealogical enrollment? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
16And Rehoboam lay down with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
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