1And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the royalty and when he had become strong, that he forsook the instruction of the LORD, and all Israel with him.2And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD.3With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.4And he captured the fortified cities that belonged to Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.5And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the rulers of Judah who had gathered in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, "Thus says the LORD: You have forsaken me, and I also have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak."6And the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."7And when the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak."8For they will become his servants, so that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.9And Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; and he took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the house of the king—he took everything—and he took the gold shields that Solomon had made.10And King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and assigned them to the commanders of the guards who kept watch at the entrance to the king's palace.11And it came to pass, whenever the king went to the house of the LORD, that the guards came and carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.12And when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned from him and did not bring complete destruction; moreover, good conditions existed in Judah.13And King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.14And he did evil, because he had not set his heart to seek the LORD.15And the acts of Rehoboam, from the first to the last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogical records, and in the accounts of the wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days?16And Rehoboam lay down with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and his son Abijah reigned in his place.