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SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 12:8

12:8a Nevertheless, they will become his servants,

However, they will become Shishak’s servants.
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But I will let King Shishak ⌊defeat them and⌋ make them serve him.

12:8b so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”

Then they will know what it is like to serve foreign kings instead of serving me.”
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Through this they will learn that it is better to be a servant of Yahweh than to be the servant of other kings.”

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SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 12:9

12:9a So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem

When Shishak the king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
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King Shishak the king of Egypt ⌊and his army⌋ fought against Jerusalem ⌊and defeated them⌋.

12:9b and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD

he took away all the wealth from the temple of Yahweh,
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They carried away the valuable things from the house of Yahweh,

12:9c and of the royal palace.

and the wealth of the king’s palace.
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and the valuable things from the house of the king.

12:9d He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

He removed all that was valuable, including the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
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They took away everything. They even took the shields that King Solomon had made with gold.

SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 12:10

12:10a Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place

In their place, King Rehoboam made bronze shields.
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So King Rehoboam made other shields. He used bronze to make them.

12:10b and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard

He entrusted these shields to the captains of the guards
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He gave them to the officers of the royal guards

12:10c on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

who protected the door of the king’s palace.
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who stood at the door of the king’s house.

SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 12:11

12:11a And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD,

When the king went to the temple of Yahweh
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Every time the king went to the house of Yahweh ⌊to worship⌋

12:11b the guards would go with him, bearing the shields,

the guards went too. They carried the shields ⌊to the temple⌋
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the guards went with him, holding the shields.

12:11c and later they would return them to the guardroom.

and then brought them back into the storage room.
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⌊When the king left the temple,⌋ they took the shields back to the room where they kept them.

SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 12:12

12:12a Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him,

Because Rehoboam made himself humble, Yahweh abandoned his anger he had against him
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King Rehoboam admitted that he was wrong. Because of that Yahweh was no longer angry with him.

12:12b and He did not destroy him completely.

and did not destroy ⌊his kingdom⌋.
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This is why ⌊the kingdom of Judah⌋ was not destroyed.

12:12c Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.

Moreover, things went well in Judah.
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Actually, ⌊God caused⌋ good things to happen in the kingdom of Judah.

SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 12:13

Section 12:13-16

King Rehoboam completed his reign

12:13a Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem.

King Rehoboam became powerful in Jerusalem
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King Rehoboam made himself strong as the king in Jerusalem

12:13b

and continued to be the king.
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and continued to reign there.

12:13c He was forty-one years old when he became king,

His age was forty-one when he became king
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He was forty-one (41) years old when he became king.

12:13d and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,

and he ruled in Jerusalem for seventeen years.
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⌊He lived in⌋ Jerusalem and was king of Judah for seventeen (17) years.

12:13e the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name.

This was the town that Yahweh chose from all the clans of Israel to be the place of worship for his name.
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Jerusalem was the town, out of all ⌊the towns⌋ in Israel, that Yahweh chose for people to come and worship him.

12:13f His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah. She was from the country of Ammon.
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The name of King Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah. She was from the Ammon people.

SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 11:21

11:21a Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom

Rehoboam loved ⌊his wife⌋ Maacah who was Absalom’s daughter
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Maacah, the daughter of Absalom was King Rehoboam’s favorite wife.

11:21b more than all his wives and concubines.

more than all his wives and servant-wives.
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He loved her more than any of his wives and his wives of second rank.

11:21c In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines,

Rehoboam had eighteen wives and sixty slave-wives.
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King Rehoboam had eighteen (18) wives and sixty (60) other wives of second rank.

11:21d and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

He had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
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King Rehoboam was the father of twenty-eight (28) sons and sixty (60) daughters.

SIL Translator’s Notes on 2 Chronicles 12:14

12:14a And Rehoboam did evil

Rehoboam did bad things
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Rehoboam did things ⌊that Yahweh his God disliked⌋.

12:14b because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

because he did not commit himself to following Yahweh with all his heart.
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He did not choose to fully serve Yahweh.

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