1   When the kingdom of Rehoboam was on a firm footing and he became strong, he forsook the law of the Lord, he and all Israel with him. 2   In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign, because of this disloyalty to the Lord, 3   Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen, and brought with him from Egypt an innumerable following of Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. ^note 4   He captured the fortified cities of Judah and reached Jerusalem. 5   Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leading men of Judah, who had assembled in Jerusalem before the advance of Shishak, and said to them, ‘This is the word of the Lord: You have abandoned me; therefore I now abandon you to Shishak.’ 6   The princes of Israel and the king submitted and said, ‘The Lord is just.’ 7   When the Lord saw that they had submitted, there came from him this word to Shemaiah: ‘Because they have submitted I will not destroy them, I will let them barely escape; my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak, 8   but they shall become his servants; then they will know the difference between serving me and serving the rulers of other countries.’ 9    ^noteShishak king of Egypt in his attack on Jerusalem removed the treasures of the house of the Lord and of the royal palace. He seized everything, including the shields of gold that Solomon had made. 10   King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers of the escort who guarded the entrance of the royal palace. 11   Whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the escort entered, carrying the shields; afterwards they returned them to the guard-room. 12   Because Rehoboam submitted, the Lord's wrath was averted from him, and he was not utterly destroyed; Judah enjoyed prosperity.

13    ^noteThus King Rehoboam increased his power in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he came to the throne, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel as the place to receive his Name. Rehoboam's mother was a woman of Ammon called Naamah. 14   He did what was wrong, he did not make a practice of seeking guidance of the Lord. 15   The events of Rehoboam's reign, from first to last, are recorded in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer. ^noteThere was continual fighting

The kings from Rehoboam to Ahaz between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. 16   He rested with his forefathers and was buried in the city of David; and he was succeeded by his son Abijah.

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