2 Chronicles 12:2–11

²In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign their disloyalty to the Lord was punished. King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem ³with an army of 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and more soldiers than could be counted, including Libyan, Sukkite, and Ethiopian^t troops. ⁴He captured the fortified cities of Judah and advanced as far as Jerusalem.

⁵Shemaiah the prophet went to King Rehoboam and the Judean leaders who had gathered in Jerusalem to escape Shishak. He said to them, “This is the Lord’s message to you: ‘You have abandoned me, so now I have abandoned you to Shishak.’ ”

⁶The king and the leaders admitted that they had sinned, and they said, “What the Lord is doing is just.”

⁷When the Lord saw this, he spoke again to Shemaiah and said to him, “Because they admit their sin, I will not destroy them. But when Shishak attacks, they will barely survive. Jerusalem will not feel the full force of my anger, ⁸but Shishak will conquer them, and they will learn the difference between serving me and serving earthly rulers.”

^9*King Shishak came to Jerusalem and took the treasures from the Temple and from the palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that King Solomon had made. ¹⁰To replace them, Rehoboam made bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates. ¹¹Every time the king went to the Temple, the guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.