the word of God How Shemaiah and other prophets received their commission is not always explained. Sometimes it is said -the Lord sent" (cf. 2 Samuel 12:1; 2 Samuel 12:25). The prompting by a vision in sleep is most frequently recorded, and this we may assume in other cases to have been the way in which God's message came.

Shemaiah Beside the present notice of him, Shemaiah is also mentioned at the time when Shishak, king of Egypt, invaded Judæa and besieged Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 12:5; 2 Chronicles 12:7). He then was sent with a message of comfort to the princes of Judah. In 2 Chronicles 12:15 he is said to have written a chronicle of the reign of Rehoboam.

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