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12 However, after Rehaveam (Rehoboam) had become established and in firm control of his kingdom, he and all the people abandoned Yahweh’s instructions. 2 Because they were unfaithful to Yahweh, King Shishak from Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) came to attack Yerushalem in the fifth year of Rehaveam’s reign, 3 with 1,200 chariots and sixty thousand horsemen, along with a huge number of troops, including Egyptians, Libyans, Sukkites, and Kushites. 4 He captured Yehudah’s fortified cities, then moved towards Yerushalem.
5 Then the prophet Shemayah and the leaders of Yehudah who’d fled to Yerushalem because of Shishak’s attacks came to Rehaveam. Shemayah told them, “Yahweh says that it was you people who abandoned me, so now I’ve also abandoned you to be defeated by Shishak.”
6 Then the king and the Israeli leaders humbled themselves and said, “Yahweh always does what’s right and fair.”
7 When Yahweh saw that they’d humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemayah, “They’ve humbled themselves, so I won’t destroy them—my rage won’t pour out on Yerushalem through Shishak’s attack, and I’ll give them a way to recover in the future. 8 Nevertheless, they’ll become his servants, and they’ll learn the difference between serving me versus serving other nations’ kings.
9 When Egypt’s King Shishak invaded Yerushalem, he took the treasures from Yahweh’s temple and the king’s palace. He took everything valuable, including the gold shields that Shelomoh had made.[ref] 10 King Rehaveam replaced them with bronze shields, and distributed them to the leaders of the people who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace. 11 After that, whenever the king went to Yahweh’s temple, the guards went with him carrying those bronze shields. Then when the king left again, they’d return them to the guardroom. 12 Because Rehaveam humbled himself, Yahweh stopped being angry with him and didn’t eliminate him, so things were reasonably good in Yehudah.
13 King Rehaveam consolidated his rule in Yerushalem. He reigned for a total of forty-one years—seventeen of which were from Yerushalem city, which Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes in Yisrael as the place to establish his reputation. (Rehaveam’s mother was the Ammonitess, Naamah.) 14 Rehaveam did evil things because he didn’t make it his priority to get direction from Yahweh.
15 The account of everything Rehaveam did while he was king, including genealogical records, was recorded in the scrolls written by the prophets Shemayah and Iddo. Rehaveam and Yaraveam were at war with each other for his entire reign. 16 Then Rehaveam died, he was buried with his ancestors in ‘The City of David’, and his son Aviyah replaced him as king.
12:7 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
If you ask someone today what biblical prophets did, they will likely tell you that they divinely foretold of future events. While this was often the case, most prophets in the Bible focused as much on “forthtelling” God’s messages as they did on “foretelling” the future. That is, their primary role was to simply “forthtell” divinely acquired messages to leaders and groups of people, and at times that included foretelling of coming judgment, blessing, rescue, etc. Also, though plenty of prophets (sometimes called “seers” in Scripture) often spoke in confrontational or eccentric language that put them at odds with kings and religious leaders, the biblical writers also applied the term prophet to people who communicated God’s messages in ways that many readers today might not think of as prophecy, such as worship leaders appointed by David to “prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals” (1 Chronicles 25:1). Similarly, the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings are typically categorized as history by Christians, but in the Hebrew canon they belong to the category of Former Prophets. The Lord raised up prophets throughout all of biblical history, from the giving of the law under Moses to the revelation of the last days by the apostle John, and the kings of Israel and Judah often recognized and supported specific people as official prophets of the royal court and consulted them to find out God’s perspective about official matters. Following is a list of nearly everyone designated as prophet or seer in the Old Testament and the primary area of their ministry.
• Deborah (1216 B.C.) [Judges 4:4] => Baal-tamar?
• Samuel (1070 B.C.) [1 Samuel 3:20; 1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 35:18] => Ramah
• Gad (1018 B.C.) [2 Samuel 24:11; 1 Chronicles 21:9; 29:29; 2 Chronicles 29:25] => Masada?
• Nathan (1000 B.C.) [2 Samuel 12:1; 1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 29:25] => Jerusalem
• Asaph (1000 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 29:30] => Jerusalem
• Ahijah (935 B.C.) [1 Kings 11:29; 2 Chronicles 9:29] => Jerusalem
• Shemaiah (930 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 12:2-15] => Jerusalem
• Iddo (913 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 9:29; 12:15; 13:22] => Jerusalem
• Jehu son of Hanani (890 B.C.) [1 Kings 16:1-7; 2 Chronicles 19:2] => Samaria?
• Azariah (890 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 15:1-8] => Jerusalem
• Elijah (860 B.C.) [1 Kings 18:36] => Samaria
• Micaiah (853 B.C.) [1 Kings 22:8-23; 2 Chronicles 18:7-22] => Samaria
• Jahaziel (853 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 20:14] => Jerusalem
• Eliezer (853 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 20:37] => Mareshah
• Elisha (850 B.C.) [1 Kings 19:16; 2 Kings 2:15] => Samaria
• Joel (835 B.C.) [Joel 1:1] => Jerusalem
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