A   Bvt wh&abar; the kyngdome of Roboam was confirmed and stablyshed, he forsoke the lawe of the LORDE ∧ all Israel with him. And in the fyfth yeare of Roboam w&ebar;te Sisack the kynge of Egipte vp agaynst Ierusalem (for they had transgressed agaynst the LORDE) with a thousande and two hundreth charettes, and with thre score thousande horsmen, and the people were innumerable that came with him out of Egipte, Libya, Suchim ∧ out of Ethiopia, and he wanne the str&obar;ge cities that were in Iuda, and came to Ierusalem.

Then came Semaia þe; prophet vnto Roboam and to þe; rulers of Iuda (which were gathered together at Ierusalem for Sisack) ∧ sayde vnto them: Thus sayeth þe; LORDE: Ye haue lefte me, therfore haue I lefte you also in Sisacks hande. Th&ebar; the rulers in Israel with the kynge submytted them selues, and sayde: The LORDE is righteous.

B   But wh&abar; the LORDE sawe þt; they h&ubar;bled them selues, þe; worde of the LORDE came to Semaia, ∧ sayde: They haue humbled them selues, therfore wyl I not destroye them, but I wyl geue them a litle delyueraunce, that my indignacion fall not vpon Ierusalem by Sisack: for they shalbe subdued vnto him, þt; they maye knowe what it is to serue me, ∧ to serue the kyngdomes of the worlde.

Thus w&ebar;te Sisack the kynge of Egipte vp to Ierusalem, ∧ toke the treasures in the house of the LORDE, ∧ the treasures in the kynges house, and caried all awaye, and toke the shyldes of golde ^note that Salomon caused to make: in steade wherof kynge Robo&abar; made shyldes of stele, and commytted th&ebar; vnto the chefe fotemen, which kepte the dore of the kynges house. And as oft as the kynge wente in to the house of the LORDE, þe; fote men came ∧ bare them, ∧ brought them againe in to þe; fote mens ch&abar;ber. And for so moch as he submytted himselfe, þe; wrath of þe; LORDE turned fr&obar; him, so that all was not destroied: for there was yet some good in Iuda.

C   Thus was Roboam the kinge stablished in Ierusalem, and reigned. One and fortye yeare olde was Roboam wh&abar; he was made kynge, and reigned seuentene yeare at Ierusalem in the cite, ^note which the LORDE had chosen out of all the trybes of Israel, to set his name there. His mothers name was Naema an Ammonitisse: and he did euell, and prepared not his hert to seke the LORDE.

These actes of Roboam, both fyrst and last, are wrytten in the actes of Semaia the prophet, ∧ of Iddo the Seer, and are noted, ∧ so are the warres that Roboam and Ieroboam had together as longe as they lyued. And Roboam fell on slepe with his fathers and was buryed in the cite of Dauid, ∧ Abia his sonne was kynge in his steade.

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