II Chronicles 12 · דברי הימים ב

And it came to pass, when Reĥav῾am had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the Tora of the Lord, and all Yisra᾽el with him.

And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Reĥav῾am, Shishaq king of Miżrayim came up against Yerushalayim, because they had transgressed against the Lord,

with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people were without number who came with him out of Miżrayim; the Luvim, the Sukkiyyim, and the Kushim.

And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Yehuda, and came to Yerushalayim.

Then came Shema῾ya the prophet to Reĥav῾am, and to the princes of Yehuda, who were fathered together to Yerushalayim, because of Shishaq, and he said to them, Thus says the Lord, You have forsaken me, and therefore I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishaq.

Whereupon the princes of Yisra᾽el and the king humbled themselves: and they said, The Lord is righteous.

And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shema῾ya, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Yerushalayim by the hand of Shishaq.

Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

So Shishaq king of Miżrayim came up against Yerushalayim, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Shelomo had made.

Instead of which king Reĥav῾am made shields of brass and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the king’s house.

And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so that he did not destroy him altogether: and also in Yehuda things went well.

So king Reĥav῾am strengthened himself in Yerushalayim, and reigned: for Reĥav῾am was forty one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra᾽el to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Na῾ama an ῾Ammonite woman.

And he did evil, because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.

Now the acts of Reĥav῾am, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shema῾ya the prophet, and of ῾Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Reĥav῾am and Yorov῾am continually.

And Reĥav῾am slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Aviyya his son reigned in his stead.