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themselves;
therefore
I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath
shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
8
Nevertheless they shall be his
servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
9
So
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the
L
ORD
, and the treasures of the king’s house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold
which Solomon had made.
10
Instead of which king Rehoboammade shields of brass, and committed
them
to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king’s house.
11
And when
the king entered into the house of the L
ORD
, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them
again into the guard chamber.
12
And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the L
ORD
turned from
him 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
one
and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city
which the L
ORD
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 prepared not his heart to seek
the L
ORD
.
15
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last,
are
they not written in the book of Shemaiah
the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And
there were
wars between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam continually.
16
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER CHRONICLES 13
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
2
He reigned three
years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also
was
Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And
there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
3
And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of
valiant men of war,
even
four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array
against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men,
being
mighty men of valour.
4
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which
is
in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me,
thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
5
Ought ye not to know that the L
ORD
God of Israel gave the kingdom
over Israel to David for ever,
even
to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
6
Yet Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his
lord.
7
And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened
themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted,
and could not withstand them.
8
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the L
ORD
in the
hand of the sons of David; and ye
be
a great multitude, and
there are
with you golden calves, which
Jeroboam made you for gods.
9
Have ye not cast out the priests of the L
ORD
, the sons of Aaron, and
the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of
other
lands? so that
whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams,
the same
may be
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