and to the princes of
Juda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and
he said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left
you in the hand of Sesac.

12:6. And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation,
said: The Lord is just.

12:7. And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the Lord
came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy
them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall not fall
upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.

12:8. But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference
between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.

12:9. So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the
treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden
shields that Solomon had made,

12:10. Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to
the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the
palace.

12:11. And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the
shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their
armoury.

12:12. But yet because they were humbled, the wrath of the Lord turned
away from them, and they were not utterly destroyed: for even in Juda
there were found good works.

12:13. King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned:
he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all
the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his
mother was Naama an Ammonitess.

12:14. But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.

12:15. Now the acts of Roboam first and last are written in the books of
Semeias the prophet, and of Addo the seer, and diligently recorded: and
there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all their days.

12:16. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David. And Abia his son reigned in his stead.

2 Paralipomenon Chapter 13

Abia's reign: his victory over Jeroboam.

13:1. In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda.

13:2. Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was
Michaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia
and Jeroboam.

Michaia... Alias Maacha. Her father had also two names, viz., Absalom,
or Abessalom, and Uriel.

13:3. And when