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2 Chronicles 12:3-7

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.’ ”

2 Chronicles 12:6

So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”

2 Chronicles 12:7

When the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them; and I will grant them a little deliverance, and My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak.