1 Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

2 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,

3 With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians.

4 And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.

6 Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.

7 And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

8 But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

9 So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

10 And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

11 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

12 And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.

13 So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

14 And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

16 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.

1 Depois que Roboão se fortaleceu, firmou-se como rei, ele e todo o Israel abandonaram a lei do Senhor.

2 Por terem sido infiéis ao Senhor, Sisaque, rei do Egito, atacou Jerusalém no quinto ano do reinado de Roboão.

3 Com mil e duzentos carros de guerra, sessenta mil cavaleiros e um exército incontável de líbios, suquitas e etíopes, que vieram do Egito com ele,

4 conquistou as cidades fortificadas de Judá e chegou até Jerusalém.

5 Então o profeta Semaías apresentou-se a Roboão e aos líderes de Judá que se haviam reunido em Jerusalém, fugindo de Sisaque, e lhes disse: "Assim diz o Senhor: ‘Vocês me abandonaram; por isso eu agora os abandono, entregando-os a Sisaque’ ".

6 Os líderes de Israel e o rei se humilharam e disseram: "O Senhor é justo".

7 Quando o Senhor viu que eles se humilharam, veio a Semaías esta palavra do Senhor: "Visto que eles se humilharam, não os destruirei, mas em breve lhes darei livramento. Minha ira não será derramada sobre Jerusalém por meio de Sisaque.

8 Eles, contudo, ficarão sujeitos a ele, para que aprendam a diferença entre servir a mim e servir aos reis de outras terras".

9 Quando Sisaque, rei do Egito, atacou Jerusalém, levou todos os tesouros do templo do Senhor e do palácio real, inclusive os escudos de ouro que Salomão havia feito.

10 Por isso o rei Roboão mandou fazer escudos de bronze para substituí-los, e os entregou aos chefes da guarda da entrada do palácio real.

11 Sempre que o rei ia ao templo do Senhor, os guardas empunhavam os escudos, e, em seguida, os devolviam à sala da guarda.

12 Como Roboão se humilhou, a ira do Senhor afastou-se dele, e ele não foi totalmente destruído. Aliás, ainda havia algo de bom em Judá.

13 O rei Roboão firmou-se no poder em Jerusalém e continuou a reinar. Tinha quarenta e um anos de idade quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezessete anos em Jerusalém, cidade que o Senhor havia escolhido dentre todas as tribos de Israel para nela pôr o seu nome. Sua mãe, uma amonita, chamava-se Naamá.

14 Ele agiu mal porque não dispôs o seu coração para buscar o Senhor.

15 Os demais acontecimentos do reinado de Roboão, do início ao fim, estão escritos nos relatos do profeta Semaías e do vidente Ido, que tratam de genealogias. Houve guerra constante entre Roboão e Jeroboão.

16 Roboão descansou com os seus antepassados e foi sepultado na cidade de Davi; seu filho Abias foi o seu sucessor.