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Then ^(C1)Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, "This is what the LORD says: '^(C2)You have abandoned Me, so I also have abandoned you ^(F1)to Shishak.'"

So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The ^(C1)LORD is righteous."

When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "^(C1)They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them; and I will grant them a little deliverance, and ^(C2)My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak.

"But they will become his slaves, so ^(C1)that they may learn the difference between My service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."

^(C1)Now the acts of Rehoboam, from the first to the last, are they not written in the ^(F1)records of ^(C2)Shemaiah the prophet and of ^(C3)Iddo the seer, according to genealogical enrollment? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.