2 Tawarikh 12

2 Tawarikh 12

Sisak menyerang Yerusalem 12:1 Rehabeam beserta seluruh Israel meninggalkan hukum TUHAN, ketika kerajaannya menjadi kokoh dan kekuasaannya menjadi teguh. 12:2 Tetapi pada tahun kelima zaman raja Rehabeam, majulah Sisak, raja Mesir, menyerang Yerusalem -- karena mereka berubah setia terhadap TUHAN -- 12:3 dengan seribu dua ratus kereta dan enam puluh ribu orang berkuda, sedang rakyat yang mengikutinya dari Mesir, yakni orang Libia, orang Suki dan orang Etiopia, tidak terhitung banyaknya. 12:4 Ia merebut kota-kota benteng yang di Yehuda, bahkan mendekati Yerusalem. 12:5 Nabi Semaya datang kepada Rehabeam dan pemimpin-pemimpin Yehuda yang berkumpul di Yerusalem berhubung dengan ancaman Sisak, dan berkata kepada mereka: "Beginilah firman TUHAN: Kamu telah meninggalkan Aku, oleh sebab itu Akupun meninggalkan kamu juga dalam kuasa Sisak." 12:6 Maka pemimpin-pemimpin Israel dan raja merendahkan diri dan berkata: "Tuhanlah yang benar!" 12:7 Ketika TUHAN melihat bahwa mereka merendahkan diri, datanglah firman TUHAN kepada Semaya, bunyinya: "Mereka telah merendahkan diri, oleh sebab itu Aku tidak akan memusnahkan mereka. Aku segera akan meluputkan mereka dan kehangatan murka-Ku tidak akan dicurahkan atas Yerusalem dengan perantaraan Sisak. 12:8 Tetapi mereka akan menjadi hamba-hambanya, supaya mereka tahu membedakan antara mengabdi kepada-Ku dan mengabdi kepada kerajaan-kerajaan duniawi." 12:9 Maka majulah Sisak, raja Mesir itu, menyerang Yerusalem. Ia merampas barang-barang perbendaharaan rumah TUHAN dan barang-barang perbendaharaan rumah raja; semuanya dirampasnya. Ia merampas juga perisai-perisai emas yang dibuat Salomo. 12:10 Sebagai gantinya raja Rehabeam membuat perisai-perisai tembaga, yang dipercayakannya kepada pemimpin-pemimpin bentara yang menjaga pintu istana raja. 12:11 Setiap kali raja masuk ke rumah TUHAN, bentara-bentara datang membawa masuk perisai-perisai itu, dan mereka pula yang mengembalikannya ke kamar jaga para bentara. 12:12 Oleh sebab raja merendahkan diri, surutlah murka TUHAN dari padanya, sehingga ia tidak dimusnahkan-Nya sama sekali. Lagipula masih terdapat hal-hal yang baik di Yehuda. 12:13 Raja Rehabeam menunjukkan dirinya kuat dalam pemerintahannya di Yerusalem. Rehabeam berumur empat puluh satu tahun pada waktu ia menjadi raja, dan tujuh belas tahun lamanya ia memerintah di Yerusalem, kota yang dipilih TUHAN dari antara segala suku Israel untuk membuat nama-Nya tinggal di sana. Nama ibunya ialah Naama, seorang perempuan Amon. 12:14 Ia berbuat yang jahat, karena ia tidak tekun mencari TUHAN. 12:15 Bukankah riwayat Rehabeam dari awal sampai akhir semuanya tertulis dalam riwayat Semaya, nabi itu, dan Ido, pelihat itu, -- yang juga memuat daftar silsilah. Antara Rehabeam dan Yerobeam terus-menerus ada perang. 12:16 Kemudian Rehabeam mendapat perhentian bersama-sama dengan nenek moyangnya, dan ia dikuburkan di kota Daud. Maka Abia, anaknya, menjadi raja menggantikan dia.

12:1 Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel along with him.
12:2 And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
12:3 with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egyptthe Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.
12:4 And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.
12:5 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD: `You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.'"
12:6 So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The LORD [is] righteous."
12:7 Now when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
12:8 "Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may distinguish My service from the service of the kingdoms of the nations."
12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took everything. He also carried away the gold shields which Solomon had made.
12:10 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed [them] to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king's house.
12:11 And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guard would go and bring them out; then they would take them back into the guardroom.
12:12 When he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to destroy [him] completely; and things also went well in Judah.
12:13 Thus Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam [was] fortyone years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name [was] Naamah, an Ammonitess.
12:14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD.
12:15 The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
12:16 So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.

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