Reference

2 Chronicles 12:5

Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
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With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

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And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

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Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

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Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord is righteous.

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And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore 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.

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Literal Fulfillment

While the verse describes a prophetic message and its immediate, concrete consequence (being left in Shishak's hand), the "fulfillment" here is the immediate consequence of their actions, not a prediction of a distant, complex future event that would typically be associated with "literal fulfillment" in a broader prophetic sense.

Prophetic Methods of Communication

The verse describes a prophet delivering a message, but it does not specify *how* God communicated that message to Shemaiah, only that Shemaiah said "Thus saith the Lord."