Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 983

5 against jcrabam. Consequently Re- haboam returned to jerusalem; but he built Fortified Cities in judah. (974 B·¤·) I0 II He alsobuilt Bethlehem, and Aitam, and Thiqua, ; And Beth-tzur, and Shoko, and Adlam; And Gath, and Marshah, and Zif ; And Adorim, and Lakish ; and Azkah; Tzamh, and Ailon; and Hebron,

which are fortified Cities in judah and Benjamin, of which he strengthened the defences, and appointed Com- manders over them, with stores of food, and oil and wine, and shields and arms, and made them very strong. S0 judah and Benjamin remained his. Gb: §rizzis in israel QE¤1Izzi in 16 lizbakuam. The Priests and Levites, who were

in Israel collected to him from all quarters; for the Levites abandoned their pasture·lands, and possessions, and emigrated to judah, and jeru- salem, because jerabam expelled them, and their sons from the Priest- hood of the Evmz·1.1vme, and ap- pointed Priests for himself at the Mounds, for the Satyrs, and Calves that he made. Those also who gave their hearts to seek the Evan-1.1v1Ncs Gon of israel followed them, and came to jerusalem to sacrifice to the GOD of their fathers. Thus they strength- ened the Kingdom of Judah, and invigorated Rehaboam, the son of Solomon, for three years,-··—and he followed the path of David and Solomon- for three years. 18 Rehaboam took as his wife, Mak- halath, · ben · jerimoth, - ben- David ; and Abikhil, the daughter Aliab,-

19 ben—]essai, and she bore sons to him, jaush, and Sheberiah, and Zahm. 20 And afterher he married Makah, the daughter of Aurial of Gibaah,1 and she bore him Abiah, Athi, and

21 Ziza, and Shelomith. And Rehaboam loved Makah, the daughter of Auriall

1 No·rn.····Ch. 1:, v. zo. By the error of some

old transeriber the current Hebrew text has the daughter of Absalom, which is impossible, owing to the length of time that elapsed between the period of Absalom more than all his wives, and secondary wives, although he married eighteen wives, and sixty secondary·wives, and begot twenty—eight sons, and sixty daughters. So Rehaboarn appointed Abiah the

son. of Makah as the Chief, to rule amongst his brothers, and to make him King. Consequently he acted pru- dently, and distributed all his sons over the country of judah and Benjamin, in various fortified Cities, and gave them liberal allowances, and selected a number of wives for them. 22

(972 ac.) Slyishalt nf éggpi ittitahzs 3UhKl]• But when Rehaboam was Hxed in 12 the Kingship, and had strengthened himself, he abandoned the Laws of the Evan-Lrviuo, and all Israel followed him. Then in the fifth year 2 of Rehaboam's reign, Shishak, the King ofthe Mitzeraim,came up against jerusalem, because they had risen against the EVER-LIVING, with twelve hundred Chariots, and sixty thousand Cavalry, and an innumerable army with him, from the Mitzeraim, Lubim, Sukiim, and Kushim, and they cap- tured the Fortified Cities in judah, and arrived at jerusalem. Then Shemiah the Reciter came to Reha- boam and the Princes of judah, who had collected at jerusalem in Bight from Shishak, and said to them; ‘Thus says the Evnr<—r.1vmG,

‘ You abandoned Me, so I have aban- doned you to the hand of Shishak) The Princes of Israel, and the King 6 then humbled themselves, and re- The Evan-Livinc is right. So when the Loma saw that they y were penitent, a Message from the EvER·L1v1NG came to Shemiah, to They have repented ; I will not desolate them; but will give them in alittle while an escape; and My anger shall not be passed on jerusalem by the hand of Shishak; but they shall behis subjects and learn the differ- ence of subjection to Me, and sub- jection to the Kings ofthe countriesf But Shishak the King of the Mit-

zeraim advancedragainst jerusalem, and took the treasures of the House -·—upwarrds of half a century-——and the date of Rehaboam’s marriage. The name and parentage are given correctly in Ch. 1%, v. 2, as I give them above in my version.-- . F. 983