And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, 'They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak — God responded to humiliation (וַיִּשְׁמַע יְהוָה אֶת־תְּחִנָּתָם): Rehoboam and his princes would not be destroyed. Some 'deliverance' (פְלֵיטָה, deliverance/remnant) would be granted; Jerusalem would not be entirely destroyed. The divine response was conditional: recognition of justice and humiliation led to partial sparing.

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