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Shishak
of Egypt Invades Judah |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:1 |
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When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established
and strong, he and all Israel with him forsook the law of the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:2 |
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And it came about in King Rehoboam's fifth
year, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, that Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:3 |
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with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And
the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim
and the Ethiopians. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:4 |
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He captured the fortified cities of Judah and
came as far as Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:5 |
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Then Shemaiah 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 the LORD, 'You have forsaken Me, so I also have forsaken
you to Shishak.'" |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:6 |
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So the princes of Israel and the king humbled
themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous." |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:7 |
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When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves,
the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves so
I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some measure of deliverance, and
My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:8 |
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But they will become his slaves so that they
may learn the difference between My service and the service of the kingdoms of
the countries." |
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Plunder
Impoverishes Judah |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:9 |
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So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
and took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's
palace. He took everything; he even took the golden shields which Solomon had
made. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:10 |
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Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in
their place and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who
guarded the door of the king's house. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:11 |
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As often as the king entered the house of the
LORD, the guards came and carried them and then brought them back into the guards'
room. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:12 |
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And when he humbled himself, the anger of the
LORD turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also conditions
were good in Judah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:13 |
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So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem
and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from
all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah
the Ammonitess. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:14 |
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He did evil because he did not set his heart
to seek the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:15 |
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Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last,
are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer,
according to genealogical enrollment? And there were wars between Rehoboam and
Jeroboam continually. |
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| 2 Chronicles 12:16 |
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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was
buried in the city of David; and his son Abijah became king in his place. |
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