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1 And it came to pass, when Re­hoboam had es­tab­lished the king­dom, and had strength­ened him­self, he for­sook the law of the LORD, and all Is­rael with him. 2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Re­hoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, be­cause they had trans­gressed against the LORD, 3 With twelve hun­dred char­i­ots, and three­score thou­sand horse­men: and the peo­ple were with­out num­ber that came with him out of Egypt; the Lu­bims, the Sukki­ims, and the Ethiopi­ans. 4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Ju­dah, and came to Jerusalem. 5 Then came She­ma­iah the prophet to Re­hoboam, and to the princes of Ju­dah, that were gath­ered to­geth­er to Jerusalem be­cause of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have for­sak­en me, and there­fore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. 6 Where­upon the princes of Is­rael and the king hum­bled them­selves; and they said, The LORD is righ­teous. 7 And when the LORD saw that they hum­bled them­selves, 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; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 8 Nev­er­the­less they shall be his ser­vants; that they may know my ser­vice, and the ser­vice of the king­doms of the coun­tries. 9 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 all: he car­ried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 10 In­stead of which king Re­hoboam made shields of brass, and com­mit­ted them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the en­trance of the king's house. 11 And when the king en­tered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard cham­ber. 12 And when he hum­bled him­self, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not de­stroy him al­to­geth­er: and also in Ju­dah things went well. 13 So king Re­hoboam strength­ened him­self in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Re­hoboam was one and forty years old when he be­gan to reign, and 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. And his mother's name was Naamah an Am­monitess. 14 And he did evil, be­cause he pre­pared not his heart to seek the LORD. 15 Now the acts of Re­hoboam, first and last, are they not writ­ten in the book of She­ma­iah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer con­cern­ing ge­nealo­gies? 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 Abi­jah his son reigned in his stead.