2 Crónicas 12
1 Cuando el reino de Roboam se había afianzado y fortalecido, él abandonó la Ley de Yavé y todo el pueblo 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 Sucedió que en el año quinto del rey Roboam, por cuanto se rebeló contra Yavé, Sisac, rey de Egipto, subió contra Jerusalén
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 1.200 carruajes de guerra y 60.000 jinetes. El ejército de libios, suquienos y etíopes que iban con él desde Egipto era innumerable.
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 de Judá y llegó hasta Jerusalén.
They captured many of the cities in Judah that had walls around them, and they came as far as Jerusalem.
5 Entonces el profeta Semaías fue a Roboam y a los jefes de Judá, que se reunieron en Jerusalén a causa de Sisac, y les dijo: Yavé dice: Ustedes me abandonaron. Yo también los abandono 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 Pero los jefes de Israel y el rey se humillaron y dijeron: Justo es Yavé.
Then the king and the other Israeli leaders humbled themselves and said, “What Yahweh is doing to us is fair.”
7 Cuando Yavé vio que se humillaron, la Palabra de Yavé vino a Semaías: Se humillaron, Por tanto, no los destruiré, sino les daré algún escape. Mi ira no se derramará contra Jerusalén por medio 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 Pero serán sus esclavos, para que conozcan la diferencia entre servirme a Mí y servir a los reinos de las naciones.
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 Sisac, rey de Egipto, subió contra Jerusalén y tomó los tesoros de la Casa de Yavé y la casa real. Se llevó todo y tomó los escudos de oro que hizo 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 los reemplazó por escudos de bronce y los entregó a los jefes de la guardia que custodiaba la entrada al palacio real.
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 Cuando el rey iba a la Casa de Yavé, los guardias de la escolta iban y los llevaban, pero después los devolvían a la cámara de la 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 Roboam se humilló, la ira de Yavé se apartó de él, de manera que no lo destruyó por completo. También en Judá las cosas iban bien.
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 tenía 41 años cuando comenzó a reinar. Se fortaleció en Jerusalén, la ciudad que Yavé escogió de entre todas las tribus de Israel para poner allí su Nombre. Reinó 17 años. El nombre de su madre fue Naama 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 malo, porque no dispuso su corazón para buscar a Yavé.
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, primeros y últimos, ¿no están escritos en los rollos del profeta Semaías y del vidente Iddo, según el registro genealógico? Todo el tiempo hubo guerra entre Roboam y Jeroboam.
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 descansó con sus antepasados y fue sepultado en la Ciudad de David. 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.
