2 Chronicles 12:7-11

New English Translation

⁷ When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the Lord’s message came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon.^[a] My anger will not be unleashed against^[b] Jerusalem through Shishak. ⁸ Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.”^[c]

⁹ King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made. ¹⁰ King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard^[d] who protected the entrance to the royal palace. ¹¹ Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.^[e]