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2 Chronicles 12:1-5

2 Chronicles 12:1

When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him abandoned the Law of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 12:2

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

2 Chronicles 12:3

with 1,200 chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were innumerable: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

2 Chronicles 12:4

And he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 12:5

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, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have abandoned Me, so I also have abandoned you to Shishak.’ ”