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2 Chronicles 12:5-7
New Catholic Bible
2 Chronicles 12:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and the commanders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them: “Thus says the Lord: ‘You have abandoned me, and therefore I have abandoned you to the power of Shishak.’ ” 6 Then the officers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said: “The Lord is just.”
7 When the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves, this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Because they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them. Rather, I will grant them some degree of deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
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