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2 Chronicles 11:1-12:16 — Rehoboam King of Judah

2Chr.11.1-12.16

¹When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. ²But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God: ³“Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, ⁴‘Thus says the LORD: You must not go up or fight against your brothers. Let every man return to his house, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam. ⁵Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built fortified cities in Judah. ⁶He built Bethlehem, Etam, and Tekoa, ⁷Beth-zur, Soco, and Adullam, ⁸Gath, Mareshah, and Ziph, ⁹Adoraim, Lachish, and Azekah, ¹⁰Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin. ¹¹He strengthened the fortresses and put commanders in them, along with stores of food, oil, and wine. ¹²In every city he put shields and spears, and he made them very strong. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him. ¹³The priests and the Levites who were throughout all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories. ¹⁴For the Levites left their pasturelands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to the LORD. ¹⁵And Jeroboam appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the goat-demons , and for the calves he had made. ¹⁶After them, from all the tribes of Israel, those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers. ¹⁷So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam son of Solomon strong for three years, for during those three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon. ¹⁸Rehoboam married Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth son of David and of Abihail daughter of Eliab son of Jesse. ¹⁹She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. ²⁰After her he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. ²¹Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. He had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. ²²Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief among his brothers, because he intended to make him king. ²³He dealt wisely and dispersed his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, into all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.

Chapter 12

¹When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he had become strong, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him. ²In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had acted unfaithfully against the LORD, ³with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. The troops who came with him from Egypt were without number: Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites. ⁴He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. ⁵Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “Thus says the LORD: You have forsaken me, and so I have also forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.” ⁶So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.” 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 I will grant them a measure of deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. ⁸Yet they will become his servants, so that they may know the difference between serving me and serving the kingdoms of the lands.” ⁹So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house. He took everything. He also took the gold shields that Solomon had made. ¹⁰King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and entrusted them to the captains of the guard who kept the entrance of the king’s house. ¹¹Whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards came and carried them, and then returned them to the guardroom. ¹²When he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely. Moreover, in Judah there were also good things. ¹³So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. 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. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. ¹⁴And he did evil, because he had not set his heart to seek the LORD. 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, according to genealogical records? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. ¹⁶Rehoboam died and was buried in the City of David, and his son Abijah reigned in his place.

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4/11/2026

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