And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of theLORD, and all Israel with him.
And it came to pass,thatin the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against theLORD,
With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the peoplewerewithout number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
And he took the fenced cities whichpertainedto Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, andtothe princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith theLORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, TheLORDisrighteous.
And when theLORDsaw that they humbled themselves, the word of theLORDcame to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves;thereforeI 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.
Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of theLORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committedthemto the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king’s house.
And when the king entered into the house of theLORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
And when he humbled himself, the wrath of theLORDturned from him, that he would not destroyhimaltogether: and also in Judah things went well.
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboamwasone and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which theLORDhad chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s namewasNaamah an Ammonitess.
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek theLORD.
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last,arethey not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? Andthere werewars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.