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Chapter 12

Rehoboam’s Unfaithfulness. After Rehoboam’s kingdom was firmly established and he grew ever more powerful, he, and all Israel[a] with him, abandoned the law of the Lord. In the fifth year of the reign of King Rehoboam, because he and his people had been unfaithful to the Lord, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 12:1 All Israel: that is, the people of God, not the “kingdom of Israel.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 12:2 This campaign of Pharaoh Shishak (Sheshonk) is depicted on the walls of a temple at Karnak.