1 Once Rehoboam's rule was secure and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
2 In King Rehoboam's fifth year, since they had broken faith with the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt marched against Jerusalem
3 with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and the people who came with him from Egypt were countless: Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.
4 He took the fortress cities of Judah and reached Jerusalem.
5 Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who had gathered in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and told them, "This is what the LORD says: You abandoned me, so now I have abandoned you into Shishak's hand."
6 The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is in the right."
7 When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, his word came to Shemaiah: "Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them. I will soon grant them deliverance, and my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
8 But they will become his servants, so that they learn what it is to serve me and what it is to serve the kingdoms of other lands."
9 Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and carried off the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the palace. He carried off everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
10 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and entrusted them to the commanders of the runners who guarded the entrance to the palace.
11 Each time the king went into the house of the LORD, the runners came and carried the shields, and afterward they returned them to the runners' chamber.
12 Because he humbled himself, the LORD's anger turned away from him, and he was not destroyed altogether; and in Judah there were still good things.
13 King Rehoboam strengthened his position in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to set his name there. His mother was Naamah the Ammonite.
14 He did what was evil, because he did not set his heart on seeking the LORD.
15 The deeds of Rehoboam, from beginning to end, are recorded, are they not, in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogical record? There was constant war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
16 Rehoboam lay down with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Abijah became king after him.