¹And it came to pass, when Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him.

²And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] Shishak [greedy of fine linen] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] came up against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , because they had transgressed against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ,

³With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with him out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] ; the Luvim [empty-hearted] , the Suki’im [booth dwellers] , and the Cushi [Ethiopians] .

⁴And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] , and came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] .

⁵Then came Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the prophet to Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] , and [to] the princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] , that were gathered together to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] because of Shishak [greedy of fine linen] , and said unto them, Thus says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , You2f have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak [greedy of fine linen] .

⁶Whereupon the princes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] righteous.

⁷And when the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] , saying, They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] by the hand of Shishak [greedy of fine linen] .

⁸Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

⁹So Shishak [greedy of fine linen] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] came up against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and the treasures of the king’s house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had made.

¹⁰Instead of which king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] made shields of brass, and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king’s house.

¹¹And when the king entered into the house of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.

¹²And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] things went well.

¹³So king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] strengthened himself in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , and reigned: for Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , the city which the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was] Na’amah [Loveliness] an ‘Amonit [tribal] .

¹⁴And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

¹⁵Now the acts of Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] , first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the prophet, and of ‘Iddo [His witness] the seer concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] and Yarov’am [the people will contend] continually.

¹⁶And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David [beloved] : and Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] his son reigned in his stead.