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[2 Chronicles 12:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/1) **.** *Rehoboam forsook the law of the Lord.* His juvenile council, his harem of eighteen queens and sixty concubines, are lamentable proofs of the imbecility of his mind. The apple-tree seldom bears two years alike.
[2 Chronicles 12:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/2) **.** *Shishak* is called Sesac by Josephus, He is named by Herodotus, *lib. 2.*, by Diodorus, and by Eusebius, and is called successively Sasochis, and Sebacus, and Asychis, and Sesostris. Being a great conqueror by sea and by land, he had no need to bring so great an army against Rehoboam, who was more like a woman than a man. Thus in little more than four years, the glory of Solomon’s kingdom came to the mercy of a foreign king! All is vanity, and vexation of spirit.
[2 Chronicles 12:7](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/7) **.** *Shemaiah* was a great prophet in the reign of Solomon and of Rehoboam; his addresses brought the nation to repentance, and saved Jerusalem from destruction. Like Samuel, Nathan, and Gad, he left a book of his labours connected with the history of his own times, [2 Chronicles 12:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/15). He was enrolled by the Jews amongst the forty eight prophets sent of God to their nation.

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