NITHYAM SONGS2 Chronicles 12
World English Bible (WEB) • 16 verses
1When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the LORD’s law, and all Israel with him.
Related2 Chronicles 11:17 · 2 Chronicles 12:13 · 2 Chronicles 26:13-16 · 1 Kings 14:22-24 · Jeremiah 2:31 · Micah 6:16
2In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against the LORD,
Related1 Kings 11:40 · 2 Chronicles 7:19-20 · Psalms 106:43-44 · 1 Chronicles 28:9 · Jeremiah 44:22-23 · Lamentations 5:15
3with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
RelatedNahum 3:9 · 2 Chronicles 16:8 · Daniel 11:43 · Revelation 9:16 · 1 Samuel 13:5 · 2 Chronicles 14:9
4He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Related2 Chronicles 11:5-12 · Isaiah 8:8 · Isaiah 36:1 · 2 Kings 18:17 · Isaiah 10:11 · Jeremiah 5:10
5Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “The LORD says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’”
Related2 Chronicles 11:2 · 2 Chronicles 15:2 · 1 Kings 12:22 · Jeremiah 4:18 · Jeremiah 23:33 · Jeremiah 5:19
6Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The LORD is righteous.”
7When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the LORD’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Related2 Chronicles 34:25 · Isaiah 42:25 · 1 Kings 21:28-29 · Jeremiah 3:13 · 2 Chronicles 34:21 · Leviticus 26:41-42
8Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”
RelatedDeuteronomy 28:47-48 · Isaiah 26:13 · Judges 3:1 · Hosea 8:10 · Jeremiah 10:24 · Nehemiah 9:36
9So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Related1 Kings 10:16-17 · 2 Chronicles 9:15-16 · 1 Kings 14:25-28 · 2 Kings 16:8 · 2 Kings 18:15-16 · Lamentations 1:10
10King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
Related1 Chronicles 11:25 · Lamentations 4:1 · 2 Samuel 23:23 · 2 Samuel 8:18 · Song of Solomon 3:7-8 · 1 Kings 14:27
11As often as the king entered into the LORD’s house, the guard came and bore them, then brought them back into the guard room.
12When he humbled himself, the LORD’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in Judah.
Related2 Chronicles 19:3 · 1 Kings 14:13 · Lamentations 3:22 · 2 Chronicles 12:6-7 · 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 · Lamentations 3:42
13So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Related1 Kings 14:21 · Deuteronomy 12:5 · 2 Chronicles 6:6 · 1 Kings 11:1 · Deuteronomy 23:3 · Exodus 20:24
14He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek the LORD.
Related2 Chronicles 19:3 · 1 Corinthians 15:58 · 1 Corinthians 16:13 · Ezekiel 33:31 · Isaiah 55:6-7 · Isaiah 45:19
15Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
Related2 Chronicles 9:29 · 2 Chronicles 12:5 · 2 Chronicles 13:22 · 1 Kings 12:22 · 1 Kings 14:29-30
16Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.