²Because they had been unfaithfulⁱ to the Lord, Shishak^j king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam. ³With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans,^k Sukkites and Cushites^b^l that came with him from Egypt, ⁴he captured the fortified cities^m of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

⁵Then the prophet Shemaiahⁿ came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon^o you to Shishak.’ ”

⁶The leaders of Israel and the king humbled^p themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”^q

⁷When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance.^r My wrath^s will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak. ⁸They will, however, become subject^t to him, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving the kings of other lands.”

⁹When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields^u Solomon had made. ¹⁰So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. ¹¹Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

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Footnotes

bThat is, people from the upper Nile region

Cross references

i 1 Ki 14:22–24; See 1 Ch 5:25
j 1 Ki 11:40
k Da 11:43
lSee Ge 10:6; 2 Ch 14:9; 16:8; Isa 18:2; Am 9:7; Na 3:9
mSee 2 Ch 11:10
n 2 Ch 11:2
oSee Dt 28:15
pSee Lev 26:41; See 2 Ch 6:37
q Ex 9:27; Ezr 9:15; Ps 11:7; 116:5; Da 9:14
r Ps 78:38
s Dt 9:19; Ps 69:24; Jer 7:20; 42:18; Eze 5:13
t Dt 28:48
u 2 Ch 9:16