2 Chronicles 12:4
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New International Version (©2011)
he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Shishak conquered Judah's fortified towns and then advanced to attack Jerusalem.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Shishak captured the fortified cities of Judah and invaded as far as Jerusalem.

NET Bible (©2006)
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and marched against Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He captured the fortified cities in Judah and then came to Jerusalem.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

American King James Version
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.

Darby Bible Translation
And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

World English Bible
He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
and he captureth the cities of the bulwarks that are to Judah, and cometh in unto Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:1-16 Rehoboam, forsaking the Lord, is punished. - When Rehoboam was so strong that he supposed he had nothing to fear from Jeroboam, he cast off his outward profession of godliness. It is very common, but very lamentable, that men, who in distress or danger, or near death, seem much engaged in seeking and serving God, throw aside all their religion when they have received a merciful deliverance. God quickly brought troubles upon Judah, to awaken the people to repentance, before their hearts were hardened. Thus it becomes us, when we are under the rebukes of Providence, to justify God, and to judge ourselves. If we have humbled hearts under humbling providences, the affliction has done its work; it shall be removed, or the property of it be altered. The more God's service is compared with other services, the more reasonable and easy it will appear. Are the laws of temperance thought hard? The effects of intemperance will be found much harder. The service of God is perfect liberty; the service of our lusts is complete slavery. Rehoboam was never rightly fixed in his religion. He never quite cast off God; yet he engaged not his heart to seek the Lord. See what his fault was; he did not serve the Lord, because he did not seek the Lord. He did not pray, as Solomon, for wisdom and grace; he did not consult the word of God, did not seek to that as his oracle, nor follow its directions. He made nothing of his religion, because he did not set his heart to it, nor ever came up to a steady resolution in it. He did evil, because he never was determined for good.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah,.... Which Rehoboam had lately built, and placed his sons in them, 2 Chronicles 11:5, these he took without any opposition:

and came to Jerusalem; there being no army to oppose him; and so Sesostris took many countries without fighting, and among the rest Phoenicia, as Manetho (o) relates, in which Judea may be included.

(o) Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. c. 15.

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Egypt Invades Judah
…3With twelve hundred chariots, and three score thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. 4And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. 5Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus said the LORD, You have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. …

Numbers 31:43 the community's half--was 337,500 sheep,
2 Chronicles 11:5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built up towns for defense in Judah: