23AND HE ACTED WISELY AND HE DISTRIBUTED SOME OF ALL SONS HIS TO ALL [THE] LANDS OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN TO ALL [THE] CITIES OF <THE> FORTIFICATIONS AND HE GAVE TO THEM <THE> FOOD TO ABUNDANCE AND HE SOUGHT A MULTITUDE OF WIVES 23Rehoboam also acted wisely by dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.
1AND IT WAS WHEN ESTABLISHED [THE] KINGDOM OF REHOBOAM AND ACCORDING TO STRENGTHENING HIS HE FORSOOK <OBJ.> [THE] LAW OF YAHWEH AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM Shishak Raids Jerusalem (1 Kings 14:25–28) 1After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel*NoteCloseThat is, Judah; in 2 Chronicles, Judah is occasionally called Israel, as representative of the true Israel. with him forsook the Law of the LORD.
2AND IT WAS IN THE YEAR <THE> FIFTH OF THE KING REHOBOAM HE CAME UP SHISHAK [THE] KING OF EGYPT ON JERUSALEM FOR THEY HAD ACTED UNFAITHFULLY AGAINST YAHWEH 2In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
3WITH ONE THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED CHARIOT[S] AND WITH SIXTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN AND NOT NUMBER [BELONGED] TO THE PEOPLE WHICH THEY CAME WITH HIM FROM EGYPT LIBYANS SUKKITES AND CUSHITES 3with 1,200 chariots, 60,000. horsemen,*NoteCloseOr charioteers and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt— Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.*NoteCloseThat is, people from the upper Nile region
4AND HE CAPTURED <OBJ.> [THE] CITIES OF <THE> FORTIFICATIONS WHICH [BELONGED] TO JUDAH AND HE CAME TO JERUSALEM 4He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
5AND SHEMAIAH THE PROPHET HE CAME TO REHOBOAM AND [THE] LEADERS OF JUDAH WHO THEY HAD GATHERED TO JERUSALEM <FROM> BECAUSE OF SHISHAK AND HE SAID TO THEM THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH YOU YOU HAVE ABANDONED <OBJ.> ME AND ALSO I I HAVE ABANDONED <OBJ.> YOU IN [THE] HAND OF SHISHAK 5Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”
6AND THEY HUMBLED THEMSELVES [THE] LEADERS OF ISRAEL AND THE KING AND THEY SAID [IS] RIGHTEOUS YAHWEH 6So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
7AND WHEN SAW YAHWEH THAT THEY HAD HUMBLED THEMSELVES IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO SHEMAIAH <TO> SAYING THEY HAVE HUMBLED THEMSELVES NOT I WILL DESTROY THEM AND I WILL GIVE TO THEM LIKE A LITTLE <TO> DELIVERANCE AND NOT IT WILL POUR FORTH RAGE MY ON JERUSALEM BY [THE] HAND OF SHISHAK 7When 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 will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
8FOR THEY WILL BECOME OF HIM <INTO> SUBJECTS SO THEY MAY KNOW SERVICE MY AND [THE] SERVICE OF [THE] KINGDOMS OF THE LANDS 8Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”
9AND HE CAME UP SHISHAK [THE] KING OF EGYPT ON JERUSALEM AND HE TOOK <OBJ.> [THE] TREASURES OF [THE] HOUSE OF YAHWEH AND <OBJ.> [THE] TREASURES OF [THE] HOUSE OF THE KING <OBJ.> <THE> EVERYTHING HE TOOK AND HE TOOK <OBJ.> [THE] SHIELDS OF <THE> GOLD WHICH HE HAD MADE SOLOMON 9So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
10AND HE MADE THE KING REHOBOAM IN PLACE OF THEM SHIELDS OF BRONZE AND HE ENTRUSTED [THEM] ON [THE] HAND OF [THE] COMMANDERS OF THE RUNNERS WHO GUARDED [THE] ENTRANCE OF [THE] HOUSE OF THE KING 10Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
11AND IT WAS AS OFTEN AS CAME THE KING [THE] HOUSE OF YAHWEH THEY CAME THE RUNNERS AND THEY CARRIED THEM AND THEY RETURNED THEM TO [THE] GUARDROOM OF THE RUNNERS 11And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
12AND WHEN HE HUMBLED HIMSELF IT TURNED BACK FROM HIM [THE] ANGER OF YAHWEH AND NOT TO DESTROY TO COMPLETE DESTRUCTION AND ALSO IN JUDAH IT WAS THINGS GOOD 12Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.
13AND HE STRENGTHENED HIMSELF THE KING REHOBOAM IN JERUSALEM AND HE REIGNED FOR [WAS] A SON OF FORTY AND ONE YEAR[S] REHOBOAM WHEN BECAME KING HE AND SEVEN- TEEN YEAR[S] HE REIGNED IN JERUSALEM THE CITY WHERE HE HAD CHOSEN YAHWEH TO PUT <OBJ.> NAME HIS THERE FROM ALL [THE] TRIBES OF ISRAEL AND [THE] NAME OF MOTHER HIS [WAS] NAAMAH THE AMMONITE [WOMAN] Rehoboam’s Reign and Death (1 Kings 14:21–24) 13Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
14AND HE DID <THE> EVIL FOR NOT HE HAD DIRECTED HEART HIS TO SEEK <OBJ.> YAHWEH 14And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
15AND [THE] MATTERS OF REHOBOAM <THE> FORMER AND <THE> LATTER ¿ NOT [ARE] THEY WRITTEN IN [THE] WORDS OF SHEMAIAH THE PROPHET AND IDDO THE SEER FOR GENEALOGICAL ENROLLMENT AND [THE] WARS OF REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM [WERE] ALL THE DAYS 15Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies? There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.
16AND HE LAY DOWN REHOBOAM WITH ANCESTORS HIS AND HE WAS BURIED IN [THE] CITY OF DAVID AND HE BECAME KING ABIJAH SON HIS IN PLACE OF HIM 16And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah*NoteCloseAbijah is a variant of Abijam; see 1 Kings 14:31. reigned in his place.