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2 Chronicles 12
⁷ When the LORD saw their change of heart, he gave this message to Shemaiah: “Since the people have humbled themselves, I will not completely destroy them and will soon give them some relief. I will not use Shishak to pour out my anger on Jerusalem.
⁸ But they will become his subjects, so they will know the difference between serving me and serving earthly rulers.”
⁹ So King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem. He ransacked the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple and the royal palace; he stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
¹⁰ King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
¹¹ Whenever the king went to the Temple of the LORD, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.
¹² Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the LORD’s anger was turned away, and he did not destroy him completely. There were still some good things in the land of Judah.
¹³ King Rehoboam firmly established himself in Jerusalem and continued to rule. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah, a woman from Ammon.
¹⁴ But he was an evil king, for he did not seek the LORD with all his heart.
¹⁵ The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded in The Record of Shemaiah the Prophet and The Record of Iddo the Seer, which are part of the genealogical record. Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other.
¹⁶ When Rehoboam died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Abijah became the next king.
2 Chronicles 13
¹ Abijah began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel.