Then (A)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: ‘(B)You have abandoned Me, so I also have abandoned you [a]to Shishak.’” So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The (C)Lord is righteous.”

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 12:5 Lit in the hand of

15 (A)Now the acts of Rehoboam, from the first to the last, are they not written in the [a]records of (B)Shemaiah the prophet and of (C)Iddo the seer, according to genealogical enrollment? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 12:15 Lit words

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