II Chronicles · Chapter 12 King James Version

II Chronicles 12:13

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The Scripture

(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 LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)

Second Chronicles 12 records that after Rehoboam had strengthened his kingdom, he and all Israel forsook the law of the Lord, so in his fifth year Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem with a vast host and captured Judah's fortified cities. Through the prophet Shemaiah the Lord declares that because they had forsaken Him, He has left them in Shishak's hand, whereupon the leaders humble themselves and the Lord grants them some deliverance, though they become Shishak's servants. The chapter closes by noting Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord, and after continual wars with Jeroboam he died and his son Abijah reigned.

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