RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

DIVRE HAYAMIM BET – SECOND CHRONICLES
established the malchut, and had strengthened himself,
he forsook the Torah of vuvh, and kol Yisrael with
him. 4302
2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of melech
Rechavam Shishak melech of Mitzrayim came up
against Yahrushalayim, because they had transgressed
against vuvh,
3 With twelve hundred mirkavot, and sixty thousand
horsemen: and the people were without number that
came with him out of Mitzrayim; the Luvims, the
Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
4 And he captured the fortified cities that pertained to
Yahudah, and came to Yahrushalayim.
5 Then came Shemayah the navi to Rechavam, and to
the rulers of Yahudah, that were gathered together to
Yahrushalayim because of Shishak, and said to them,
This says vuvh, You have forsaken Me, and therefore
have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
6 Then the rulers of Yisrael and the melech humbled
themselves; and they said, vuvh is tzadik.
7 And when vuvh saw that they humbled themselves,
the word of vuvh came to Shemayah, 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 Yahrushalayim by the
hand of Shishak.
8 Nevertheless they shall be his avadim; that they may
know My service, and the service of the malchutim of
the countries.
9 So Shishak melech of Mitzrayim came up against
Yahrushalayim, and took away the treasures of the
Bayit of vuvh, and the treasures of the melech’s bayit;
he took all: and carried away also the shields of gold
which Shlomo had made.
10 And then melech Rechavam made shields of bronze
to replace them, and committed them to the hands of the
head of the guard, that guarded the entrance of the
melech’s bayit.
11 And when the melech entered into the Bayit of vuvh,
the guard came and fetched them, and brought them
again into the guard chamber.
12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of vuvh
turned from him that he would not destroy him
altogether: and also in Yahudah things went well.
13 So melech Rechavam strengthened himself in
Yahrushalayim, and reigned: for Rechavam was fortyone
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Yahrushalayim, the city which vuvh
had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael, to put His
Name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an
Ammonitess. 4303
14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his lev to
seek vuvh.
15 Now the acts of Rechavam, the first and last, are they
not written in the Scroll of Shemayah the navi, and of
Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? 4304 And there
were wars between Rechavam and Yahravam
continually. 4305
16 And Rechavam slept with his ahvot, and was buried
in the city of Dawid: and Aviyah his son reigned in his
place.
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Now in the eighteenth year of melech Yahravam
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began Aviyah to reign over Yahudah.
2 He reigned three years in Yahrushalayim. His
mother’s name also was Michayah the daughter of Uriel
of Givat. And there was war between Aviyah and
Yahravam. 4306
3 And Aviyah joined the battle with an army of brave
men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men:
Yahravam also set the battle against him with eight
hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of
bravery.
4 And Aviyah stood up upon Mount Zemarayim, which
is in the mountains of Efrayim, and said, Listen to me,
Yahravam, and kol Yisrael;
5 Don’t you know that vuvh Elohim of Yisrael gave the
malchut over Yisrael to Dawid le-olam-va-ed, even to
him and to his sons by a brit of salt?
6 Yet Yahravam the son of Nevat, the eved of Shlomo
the son of Dawid, has risen up, and has rebelled against
his master.
7 And there are gathered to him vain men, the children
of Beliya-al, and have strengthened themselves against
Rechavam the son of Shlomo,
when Rechavam was young and tenderhearted, and
could not withstand them.
8 And now you think to withstand the malchut of vuvh
in the hand of the sons of Dawid; because you are a
great multitude, and there are with you golden calves,
which Yahravam made for you as your elohim.
9 Have you not cast out the Kohanim of vuvh, the sons
of Aharon, and the Lewiym, and have made for
yourselves priests after the manner of the nations of
other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate
himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same
may be a priest for them that are not elohim.
10 But as for us, vuvh is our Elohim, and we have not
forsaken Him; and the Kohanim, who serve vuvh, are
the sons of Aharon, and the Lewiym wait upon their
service:
11 And they burn to vuvh every shachrit and every
maariv burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the Lechem
ha Panayim also they set in order upon the pure
shulchan; and the menorah of gold with its lamps, to
burn every maariv: for we keep the charge of vuvh our
Elohim; but you have forsaken Him.
12 And, see, Elohim Himself is with us as our Captain,
and His Kohanim with sounding shofars to sound the
alarm against you. O children of Yisrael, 4307 fight not
against vuvh Elohim of your ahvot; for you shall not
prosper.
13 But Yahravam caused an ambush to come about
behind them: so they were before Yahudah, and the
ambush was behind them.
14 And when Yahudah looked back, see, the battle was
before and behind: and they cried to vuvh, and the
Kohanim sounded with the shofars.
15 Then the men of Yahudah gave a shout: and as the
men of Yahudah shouted, it came to pass, that Elohim
struck Yahravam and kol Yisrael before Aviyah and
Yahudah.
16 And the children of Yisrael fled before Yahudah: and
Elohim delivered them into their hand.
17 And Aviyah and his people killed them with a great
slaughter: so there fell down slain of Yisrael five