2 Crónicas 12
1 Cuando el reino de Roboam se estableció y se hizo fuerte, abandonó la ley de Yahvé, y todo Israel con él.
After Rehoboam was in complete control of his kingdom, he and all [the other people in] Judah stopped obeying the laws of Yahweh.
2 En el quinto año del rey Roboam, Sisac, rey de Egipto, subió contra Jerusalén, porque habían prevaricado contra Yahvé,
As a result, after Rehoboam had been king for almost five years, Yahweh sent Shishak, the king of Egypt, [with his army] to attack Jerusalem.
3 con mil doscientos carros y sesenta mil jinetes. Los pueblos que vinieron con él desde Egipto eran innumerables: los lubines, los suquines y los etíopes.
Along with his army he brought 1,200 chariots and 60,000 soldiers riding horses and a very large number of troops from two regions in Libya, and from Ethiopia.
4 Tomó las ciudades fortificadas que pertenecían a Judá y llegó a Jerusalén.
They captured many of the cities in Judah that had walls around them, and they came as far as Jerusalem.
5 El profeta Semaías vino a Roboam y a los príncipes de Judá que estaban reunidos en Jerusalén a causa de Sisac, y les dijo: “Yahvé dice: ‘Ustedes me han abandonado, por eso yo también los he dejado en manos de Sisac’.”
Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and the other leaders of Judah who had gathered in Jerusalem because they were afraid of [the army of] Shishak. Shemaiah said to them, “Yahweh says this: ‘You have abandoned me; so now I am abandoning you, to [allow you to be captured by the army of] Shishak.’”
6 Entonces los príncipes de Israel y el rey se humillaron y dijeron: “Yahvé es justo”.
Then the king and the other Israeli leaders humbled themselves and said, “What Yahweh is doing to us is fair.”
7 Cuando Yahvé vio que se humillaban, llegó la palabra de Yahvé a Semaías, diciendo: “Se han humillado. No los destruiré, sino que les concederé alguna liberación, y mi ira no se derramará sobre Jerusalén por la mano de Sisac.
When Yahweh realized that they had humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: “Because they have humbled themselves, I will not allow them to be destroyed. Instead, I will soon rescue them. I will not use Shishak’s army to completely destroy the people of Jerusalem,
8 Sin embargo, serán sus servidores, para que conozcan mi servicio y el de los reinos de los países.”
but they will conquer Jerusalem and force the people there to do what Shishak wants them to do. As a result, the people of Jerusalem will learn [that it is better] to serve me than to serve the kings of other countries.”
9 Entonces Sisac, rey de Egipto, subió contra Jerusalén y se llevó los tesoros de la casa de Yahvé y los tesoros de la casa del rey. Se lo llevó todo. También se llevó los escudos de oro que había hecho Salomón.
When Shishak’s [army] attacked Jerusalem, they took/carried away the valuable things that were in the temple of Yahweh and the valuable things that were in the king’s palace. They took everything [that was valuable], including the gold shields that Solomon’s [workers] had made.
10 El rey Roboam hizo escudos de bronce en su lugar, y los encomendó a los capitanes de la guardia que custodiaban la puerta de la casa del rey.
So King Rehoboam’s workers made bronze shields to be used instead of the gold ones and gave the bronze shields to the commanders of the men who guarded the entrance to his palace.
11 Cada vez que el rey entraba en la casa de Yahvé, la guardia venía y los llevaba, y luego los devolvía a la sala de guardia.
After that, whenever the king went to the temple, the guards went with him, carrying those bronze shields. Then [when the king left, ] they would return the shields to the guards’ room.
12 Cuando se humilló, la ira de Yahvé se apartó de él, para no destruirlo del todo. Además, se encontraron cosas buenas en Judá.
Because Rehoboam humbled himself, Yahweh stopped being angry with him and did not get rid of him. Instead, he caused good things to happen in Judah.
13 El rey Roboam se afianzó en Jerusalén y reinó; pues Roboam tenía cuarenta y un años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó diecisiete años en Jerusalén, la ciudad que Yahvé había elegido de entre todas las tribus de Israel para poner su nombre en ella. Su madre se llamaba Naamah la amonita.
King Rehoboam again was in complete control in Jerusalem and continued to be the king [of Judah]. He was 41 years old when he became the king. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes in Israel to be the place in which people were to worship him.
14 Hizo lo que era malo, porque no puso su corazón a buscar a Yahvé.
Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah. She was from the Ammon people-group. Rehoboam did evil things because he did not try to find out what Yahweh wanted him to do.
15 Los hechos de Roboam, primero y último, ¿no están escritos en las historias del profeta Semaías y del vidente Iddo, en las genealogías? Hubo guerras entre Roboam y Jeroboam continuamente.
An account of all the things that Rehoboam did while he was the king, and lists of the members of his family, are in the scrolls written by the prophets Shemaiah and Iddo. The armies of Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly fighting each other.
16 Roboam durmió con sus padres y fue sepultado en la ciudad de David; y su hijo Abías reinó en su lugar.
When Rehoboam died, he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. Then his son Abijah became the king.
