1When Rehoboam's kingdom was firmly established and he grew powerful, he along with all Israel forsook the law of the LORD.
2In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign, because of this disloyalty to the LORD, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
3with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; he also brought with him from Egypt an innumerable following of Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
4He captured the fortified towns of Judah and reached Jerusalem.
5Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leading men of Judah, who had collected together at Jerusalem in the face of the advance of Shishak, and said, “This is the word of the LORD: You have abandoned me; therefore I now abandon you to Shishak.”
6The princes of Israel and the king submitted and said, “The LORD is just.”
7When the LORD saw that they had submitted, there came from him this word to Shemaiah: “Because they have submitted I shall not destroy them; I shall grant them some measure of relief: my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak,
8but they will become his servants; then they will know the difference between serving me and serving the rulers of other countries.”
9King Shishak of Egypt in his attack on Jerusalem carried away the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's palace, and seized everything, including the gold shields made for Solomon.
10King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers of the escort who guarded the entrance of the palace.
11Whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the escort entered, carrying the shields; afterwards they returned them to the guardroom.
12Because Rehoboam submitted, the LORD's wrath was averted from him, and he was not utterly destroyed; Judah enjoyed prosperity.
13King 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 an Ammonite woman called Naamah.
14He did what was wrong; he did not make a practice of seeking guidance of the LORD.
15The events of Rehoboam's reign, from first to last, are recorded in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer. There was continual fighting between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
16Rehoboam rested with his forefathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Abijah succeeded him.
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