2 Tawarikh 12

¹Rehabeam beserta seluruh Israel meninggalkan hukum TUHAN, ketika kerajaannya menjadi kokoh dan kekuasaannya menjadi teguh.

¹When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.

²Tetapi pada tahun kelima zaman raja Rehabeam, majulah Sisak, raja Mesir, menyerang Yerusalem--karena mereka berubah setia terhadap TUHAN--

²In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

³dengan 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.

³with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt--Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.

⁴Ia merebut kota-kota benteng yang di Yehuda, bahkan mendekati Yerusalem.

⁴And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

⁵Nabi 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."

⁵Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, 'You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.'"

⁶Maka pemimpin-pemimpin Israel dan raja merendahkan diri dan berkata: "Tuhanlah yang benar!"

⁶Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."

⁷Ketika 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.

⁷When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

⁸Tetapi mereka akan menjadi hamba-hambanya, supaya mereka tahu membedakan antara mengabdi kepada-Ku dan mengabdi kepada kerajaan-kerajaan duniawi."

⁸Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."

⁹Maka 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.

⁹So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made,

¹⁰Sebagai gantinya raja Rehabeam membuat perisai-perisai tembaga, yang dipercayakannya kepada pemimpin-pemimpin bentara yang menjaga pintu istana raja.

¹⁰and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

¹¹Setiap kali raja masuk ke rumah TUHAN, bentara-bentara datang membawa masuk perisai-perisai itu, dan mereka pula yang mengembalikannya ke kamar jaga para bentara.

¹¹And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard came and carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.

¹²Oleh 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.

¹²And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah.

¹³Raja 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.

¹³So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.

¹⁴Ia berbuat yang jahat, karena ia tidak tekun mencari TUHAN.

¹⁴And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

¹⁵Bukankah 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.

¹⁵Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

¹⁶Kemudian Rehabeam mendapat perhentian bersama-sama dengan nenek moyangnya, dan ia dikuburkan di kota Daud. Maka Abia, anaknya, menjadi raja menggantikan dia.

¹⁶And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place.