1 ¶ When Rehoboam was established as king, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.

2 And because they had transgressed against the LORD, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

3 With twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were without number; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

4 And he captured the fortified cities that pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

5 Then Shemaiah the prophet went to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says the LORD, You have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

8 Nevertheless they will be his servants; that they may know the difference between serving me, and serving foreign governments.

9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and he took all the treasures of the king’s palace: he also carried away the shields of gold that Solomon had made.

10 In place of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, that guarded the entrance to the king’s house.

11 And when the king entered the house of the LORD, the guard came and got them, and then took them back to the guard chamber.

12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned away from him, so that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.

13 ¶ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD.

15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.