2 Crônicas 12

Rehábeam se ontrou teenoor die Here word gestraf deur 'n aanval van Sisak, die koning van Egipte.

1 EN toe Rehábeam die koningskap bevestig het en hy sterk was, het hy die wet van die Here verlaat, en die hele Israel saam met hom.

2 Toe het Sisak, die koning van Egipte, in die vyfde jaar van koning Rehábeam, teen Jerusalem opgetrek — omdat hulle ontrou teenoor die Here gehandel het —

3 met twaalfhonderd strydwaens en sestigduisend perderuiters; en ontelbaar was die manskappe wat saam met hom uit Egipte gekom het: Líbiërs, Sukkiete en Kusiete.

4 En hy het die versterkte stede ingeneem wat aan Juda behoort het, en tot by Jerusalem gekom.

5 Daarop kom die profeet Semája na Rehábeam en die owerstes van Juda wat vanweë Sisak in Jerusalem bymekaargekom het, en sê vir hulle: So spreek die Here: Júlle het My verlaat; daarom gee Ék julle ook oor in die hand van Sisak.

6 Hierop het die owerstes van Israel en die koning hulle verootmoedig en gesê: Die Here is regverdig.

7 En toe die Here sien dat hulle hul verootmoedig, kom die woord van die Here tot Semája en sê: Hulle het hul verootmoedig: Ek sal hulle nie vernietig nie, maar hulle binnekort uitkoms skenk, en my grimmigheid sal nie deur middel van Sisak oor Jerusalem uitgestort word nie.

8 Maar hulle sal sy knegte word, sodat hulle my diens en die diens van die koninkryke van die lande kan leer ken!

9 En Sisak, die koning van Egipte, het teen Jerusalem opgetrek en die skatte van die huis van die Here en die skatte van die huis van die koning weggeneem; hy het alles weggeneem; hy het ook die goue skilde wat Salomo gemaak het, weggeneem.

10 Toe maak koning Rehábeam in die plek daarvan koperskilde, en hy het dit aan die owerstes van die hardlopers toevertrou wat die ingang van die koning se huis bewaak.

11 So dikwels as die koning in die huis van die Here ingaan, kom die hardlopers en dra dit en bring dit weer terug in die wagkamer van die hardlopers.

12 Maar weens sy verootmoediging het die toorn van die Here van hom gewyk, sodat Hy hom nie geheel en al vernietig het nie; ook was daar in Juda nog goeie dinge.

13 En koning Rehábeam het hom versterk in Jerusalem en geregeer; want Rehábeam was een-en-veertig jaar oud toe hy koning geword het, en het sewentien jaar geregeer in Jerusalem, die stad wat die Here uit al die stamme van Israel verkies het om sy Naam daar te vestig; en die naam van sy moeder was Naäma, die Ammonitiese.

14 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was, want hy het nie sy hart gerig om die Here te soek nie.

15 En die geskiedenis van Rehábeam, die vroeëre en die latere, is dit nie beskrywe in die Geskiedenis van die profeet Semája en van die siener Iddo, volgens geslagsregister nie? En daar was gedurigdeur oorloë tussen Rehábeam en Jeróbeam.

16 En Rehábeam het ontslaap met sy vaders en is begrawe in die stad van Dawid; en sy seun Abía het in sy plek koning geword.

1 And it came to pass, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him. 2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Jehovah, 3 with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem. 5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Ye have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. 6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous. 7 And when Jehovah saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king’s house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 10 And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, that kept the door of the king’s house. 11 And it was so, that, as oft as the king entered into the house of Jehovah, the guard came and bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber. 12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of Jehovah turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found.

13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 14 And he did that which was evil, because he set not his heart to seek Jehovah.

15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.