1 罗波安的王位稳定， 他也强盛起来， 就离弃了耶和华的律法， 全体以色列人也都跟随他。 2 罗波安王第五年， 埃及王示撒上来攻打耶路撒冷， 因为他们得罪了耶和华。 3 示撒率领战车一千二百辆， 马兵六万， 和他一同从埃及出来的路比人、苏基人和古实人， 多得无法数算。 4 他攻取了犹大境内的设防城， 然后来到耶路撒冷。 5 那时， 犹大的众领袖， 因为示撒的缘故， 就聚集在耶路撒冷； 示玛雅先知就来见罗波安和众领袖， 对他们说： "耶和华这样说： ‘你们既然离弃了我， 所以我也离弃你们， 把你们交在示撒的手里。’" 6 于是以色列的众领袖和君王， 都谦卑下来， 说： "耶和华是公义的。" 7 耶和华看见他们谦卑下来， 耶和华的话就临到示玛雅， 说： "他们既然谦卑下来， 我就不灭绝他们； 我必使他们暂时得救， 我必不借着示撒把我的烈怒倾倒在耶路撒冷。 8 虽然这样， 他们仍必作示撒的仆人， 好使他们知道， 服事我和服事世上的列国有什么分别。" 9 于是埃及王示撒上来攻打耶路撒冷， 夺取了耶和华殿和王宫里的宝物， 把它们全部带走， 又夺去了所罗门所做的金盾牌。 10 罗波安王做了一些铜盾牌代替那些金盾牌， 交给那些看守宫门的守卫长看管。 11 每逢王进耶和华殿的时候， 守卫就来拿这些盾牌， 事后又把盾牌送回守卫房那里。 12 王既然谦卑下来， 耶和华的烈怒就止息， 没有把他完全消灭。何况在犹大中还有善事。 13 罗波安王在耶路撒冷渐渐强盛， 继续作王。罗波安登基的时候是四十一岁； 他在耶和华从以色列众支派中选出来， 立下他名的耶路撒冷城中， 作王十七年。罗波安的母亲名叫拿玛， 是亚扪人。 14 罗波安行恶， 因为他没有定意寻求耶和华。 15 罗波安的事迹， 一生的始末， 不是都记在示玛雅先知， 和先见易多的记录上吗？罗波安和耶罗波安二人常有争战。 16 罗波安和他的列祖同睡， 埋葬在大卫城里。他的儿子亚比雅接续他作王。

1 And it cometh to pass, at the establishing of the kingdom of Rehoboam, and at his strengthening himself, he hath forsaken the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.2 And it cometh to pass, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, come up hath Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem -- because they trespassed against Jehovah --3 with a thousand and two hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen, and there is no number to the people who have come with him out of Egypt -- Lubim, Sukkiim, and Cushim --4 and he captureth the cities of the bulwarks that [are] to Judah, and cometh in unto Jerusalem.5 And Shemaiah the prophet hath come in unto Rehoboam and the heads of Judah who have been gathered unto Jerusalem from the presence of Shishak, and saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, Ye have forsaken Me, and also, I have left you in the hand of Shishak;`6 and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, `Righteous [is] Jehovah.`7 And when Jehovah seeth that they have been humbled, a word of Jehovah hath been unto Shemaiah, saying, `They have been humbled; I do not destroy them, and I have given to them as a little thing for an escape, and I pour not out My fury in Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak;8 but they become servants to him, and they know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.`9 And Shishak king of Egypt cometh up against Jerusalem, and taketh the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king -- the whole he hath taken -- and he taketh the shields of gold that Solomon had made;10 and king Rehoboam maketh in their stead shields of brass, and hath given [them] a charge on the hand of the heads of the runners who are keeping the opening of the house of the king;11 and it cometh to pass, from the time of the going in of the king to the house of Jehovah, the runners have come in and lifted them up, and brought them back unto the chamber of the runners.12 And in his being humbled, turned back from him hath the wrath of Jehovah, so as not to destroy to completion; and also, in Judah there have been good things.13 And king Rehoboam strengtheneth himself in Jerusalem, and reigneth; for a son of forty and two years [is] Rehoboam in his reigning, and seventeen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah hath chosen to put His name there, out of all the tribes of Israel, and the name of his mother [is] Naamah the Ammonitess,14 and he doth the evil thing, for he hath not prepared his heart to seek Jehovah.15 And the matters of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written among the matters of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer, concerning genealogy? And the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam [are] all the days;16 and Rehoboam lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David, and reign doth Abijah his son in his stead.