Rehabeam vender sig fra Herren og bliver straffet
1.Kong. 14,22.25-28.21
1Men efter at Rehabeam havde befæstet sin kongemagt, holdt han og hele folket op med at følge Herrens lov. 2Derfor sendte Herren egypterkongen Shishak imod dem. Det skete i Rehabeams femte regeringsår. 3Shishak marcherede frem med en hær på 1200 stridsvogne, 60.000 ryttere og en utallig skare af fodfolk. Foruden egyptere var der libyere, sukkijitter og kushitter,12,3 Fra landet Kush (Nubien) i den nordlige del af det nuværende Sudan. 4og de indtog hurtigt Judas befæstede byer. Kort efter nåede hæren frem til Jerusalem.
5Så kom profeten Shemaja til Rehabeam og de judæiske ledere, der var flygtet til Jerusalem for at være i sikkerhed der, og han sagde til dem: „Herren siger: ‚I har vendt mig ryggen! Derfor vil jeg også vende jer ryggen og prisgive jer til Shishaks hær.’ ”
6Efter at kongen og lederne havde hørt det budskab, ydmygede de sig og indrømmede: „Herren er i sin gode ret til at straffe os!” 7Da Herren så deres reaktion, sendte han Shemaja tilbage til dem med følgende budskab: „Fordi I har ydmyget jer, vil jeg ikke udslette jer helt. Det bliver ikke så slemt, som det kunne være blevet, og Shishak får ikke lov til at ødelægge Jerusalem. 8Men I kommer under hans herredømme, for at I kan mærke, at det er bedre at tjene mig end Shishak.”
9Shishak erobrede derefter Jerusalem. Han plyndrede både Herrens hus og kongens palads og ribbede byen for kostbarheder, blandt andet de guldskjolde, som Salomon havde ladet fremstille. 10Bagefter fik Rehabeam lavet nogle efterligninger i bronze, som paladsgarden så brugte, 11hver gang de eskorterede kongen til templet. Derefter blev de hængt tilbage i depotet, hvor de blev opbevaret. 12Fordi Rehabeam havde ydmyget sig, blev Herren formildet, og han gjorde det ikke helt af med sit folk, for der var dog stadig noget godt i Judas land.
13Rehabeam styrkede sin magt i Jerusalem, og det lykkedes ham at holde fast ved kongemagten. Han var 41 år gammel, da han overtog magten, og han regerede 17 år i Jerusalem, den by, som Herren havde udvalgt til bolig frem for alle andre byer i Israel. Hans mor hed Na’ama og var fra Ammon. 14Men Rehabeam var en dårlig konge, for han adlød ikke Herren af hele sit hjerte.
Rehabeam dør og efterfølges på tronen af sin søn
1.Kong. 14,29-31
15Hvad der ellers skete under kong Rehabeams regeringstid er nedskrevet i profeten Shemajas bog og seeren Iddos arkiver.
Der var til stadighed fjendtligheder mellem Rehabeam og Jeroboam. 16Da Rehabeam døde, blev han begravet i familiegravstedet i Davidsbyen, og hans søn Abija blev konge efter ham.
Shishak Attacks Jerusalem
1After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel12:1 That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles with him abandoned the law of the Lord. 2Because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam. 3With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites12:3 That is, people from the upper Nile region that came with him from Egypt, 4he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
5Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.’ ”
6The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”
7When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak. 8They will, however, become subject to him, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving the kings of other lands.”
9When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made. 10So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. 11Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
12Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.
13King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. 14He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.
15As for the events of Rehoboam’s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that deal with genealogies? There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. 16Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.
