2 Chronicles 12:2–11

^2aNow it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to Yahweh, that ^bShishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

³with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: ^athe Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

⁴And he captured ^athe fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

⁵Now ^aShemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘^bYou have forsaken Me, so I also have forsaken you ¹to Shishak.’”

⁶So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “^aYahweh is righteous.”

⁷When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, “^aThey have humbled themselves so I will not bring them to ruin, but I will grant them some measure of escape, and ^bMy wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

⁸“But they will become his slaves so ^athat they may know the difference between My slavery and the slavery of the kingdoms of the countries.”

Shishak Takes from Yahweh’s House

^9aSo Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the house of Yahweh and the treasures of the king’s house. He took everything; ^bhe even took the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

¹⁰Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the hand of the commanders of the ¹guard who kept the door of the king’s house.

¹¹Now it happened that as often as the king entered the house of Yahweh, the ¹guards would come and carry them and then bring them back into the ²guards’ room.