2 Chronicles 12

It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the Taurat of Allah, and all Israel with him. ²It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Allah, ³with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. ⁴He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. ⁵Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Allah, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. ⁶Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Allah is righteous. ⁷When Allah saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Allah came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. ⁸Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. ⁹So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Allah, and the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Sulayman had made. ¹⁰King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. ¹¹It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Allah, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber. ¹²When he humbled himself, the wrath of Allah turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found. ¹³So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Allah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. ¹⁴He did that which was evil, because he did not set his heart to seek Allah. ¹⁵Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. ¹⁶Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of Dawud: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.