12:1 羅波安的國堅立，他強盛的時候就離棄耶和華的律法，以色列人也都隨從他。
12:2 羅波安王第五年，埃及王示撒上來攻打耶路撒冷，因為王和民得罪了耶和華。
12:3 示撒帶戰車一千二百輛，馬兵六萬，並且跟從他出埃及的路比人、蘇基人，和古實人，多得不可勝數。
12:4 他攻取了猶大的堅固城，就來到耶路撒冷。
12:5 那時，猶大的首領因為示撒就聚集在耶路撒冷。有先知示瑪雅去見羅波安和眾首領，對他們說：「耶和華如此說：『你們離棄了我，所以我使你們落在示撒手裡。』」
12:6 於是王和以色列的眾首領都自卑說：「耶和華是公義的。」
12:7 耶和華見他們自卑，耶和華的話就臨到示瑪雅說：「他們既自卑，我必不滅絕他們；必使他們略得拯救，我不藉著示撒的手將我的怒氣倒在耶路撒冷。
12:8 然而他們必作示撒的僕人，好叫他們知道，服事我與服事外邦人有何分別。」
12:9 於是，埃及王示撒上來攻取耶路撒冷，奪了耶和華殿和王宮裡的寶物，盡都帶走，又奪去所羅門製造的金盾牌。
12:10 羅波安王製造銅盾牌代替那金盾牌，交給守王宮門的護衛長看守。
12:11 王每逢進耶和華的殿，護衛兵就拿這盾牌，隨後仍將盾牌送回，放在護衛房。
12:12 王自卑的時候，耶和華的怒氣就轉消了，不將他滅盡，並且在猶大中間也有善益的事。
12:13 羅波安王自強，在耶路撒冷作王。他登基的時候年四十一歲，在耶路撒冷，就是耶和華從以色列眾支派中所選擇立他名的城，作王十七年。羅波安的母親名叫拿瑪，是亞捫人。
12:14 羅波安行惡，因他不立定心意尋求耶和華。
12:15 羅波安所行的事，自始至終不都寫在先知示瑪雅和先見易多的史記上嗎？羅波安與耶羅波安時常爭戰。
12:16 羅波安與他列祖同睡，葬在大衛城裡。他兒子亞比雅接續他作王。
After
Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and
all Israel[a] with him
abandoned the law of the Lord. 2 Because
they had been unfaithful to the Lord,
Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam. 3 With
twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops
of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[b] that came
with him from Egypt, 4 he captured the fortified cities of
Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
5 Then
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.’”
6 The
leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”
7 When
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. 8 They will, however, become subject
to him, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving
the kings of other lands.”
9 When
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. 10 So 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. 11 Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards went with him,
bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
12 Because
Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s
anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some
good in Judah.
13 King
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. 14 He did evil because he
had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.
15 As
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. 16 Rehoboam
rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his
son succeeded him as king.
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羅波安沒有專心信靠上帝，這是他一生的敗筆！
這也提醒我們，要好好專心愛主，不要時好時壞！
