2 Chronicles 12

12 ¹ When Rehoboam had established his kingdom and made himself strong, he abandoned the law of our Father, and all Israel with him. ² In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to our Father, Shishak king of Egypt marched up against Jerusalem. ³ He came with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen, and the troops he brought with him from Egypt were beyond counting: Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. ⁴ He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

⁵ Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, "This is what our Father says: You have abandoned me, so I in turn have handed you over to Shishak."

⁶ Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Our Father is righteous."

⁷ When our Father saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of our Father came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak." ⁸ But they will become his servants, so that they may know what it is to serve me and what it is to serve the kingdoms of the other lands.

⁹ So Shishak king of Egypt marched up against Jerusalem. He carried off the treasures of the house of our Father and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made. ¹⁰ In their place King Rehoboam made bronze shields and entrusted them to the commanders of the guard who watched the entrance to the royal palace. ¹¹ Whenever the king went to the house of our Father, the guards would carry the shields, and afterward return them to the guardroom. ¹² Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of our Father turned away from him, and he was not destroyed completely; indeed, there was still some good in Judah.

¹³ King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued to reign. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city our Father had chosen from all the tribes of Israel as the place to put his name. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite. ¹⁴ He did evil, because he did not set his heart to seek our Father.

¹⁵ The events of Rehoboam's reign, from first to last, are written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer, along with their genealogies. There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. ¹⁶ Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place.