1 Kings 14:25
New International Version
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

New Living Translation
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam’s reign, King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.

English Standard Version
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible
In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.

King James Bible
And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

New King James Version
It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt marched against Jerusalem.

NASB 1995
Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

NASB 1977
Now it came about in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt [Jeroboam’s brother-in-law] came up against Jerusalem.

Christian Standard Bible
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, King Shishak of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And it was in the fifth year of King Rekhabaam, Shishaq the King of Egypt went up against Jerusalem.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Susakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

Contemporary English Version
After Rehoboam had been king for four years, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: o

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

Good News Translation
In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

International Standard Version
As a result, during the fifth year of the reign of King Rehoboam, King Shishak of Egypt invaded and attacked Jerusalem.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

Literal Standard Version
And it comes to pass, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt has gone up against Jerusalem,

Majority Standard Bible
In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.

New American Bible
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, attacked Jerusalem.

NET Bible
In King Rehoboam's fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

New Heart English Bible
It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

World English Bible
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, gone up hath Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem,

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Context
Shishak Raids Jerusalem
25 In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem. 26He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.…

Cross References
1 Kings 11:40
Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.

2 Chronicles 12:2
In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 12:9
So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.


Treasury of Scripture

And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

A.

1 Kings 11:40
Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

2 Chronicles 12:2-4
And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, …

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1 Kings 14
1. Abijah being sick,
2. Jeroboam sends his wife, disguised, with presents to the prophet Ahijah
5. Ahijah forewarned by God, denounces God's judgment
17. Abijah dies, and is buried
19. Nadab succeeds Jeroboam
21. Rehoboam's wicked reign,
25. Shishak raids Jerusalem
29. Abijam succeeds Rehoboam














(25) Shishak.--His invasion is narrated at greater length in the record of Chronicles (2Chronicles 12:2-12), which contains a description of his army, and a notice of the preservation of Jerusalem from destruction, though not from surrender, on the repentance of the people at the call of Shemaiah. It records also the taking of "fenced cities," having noticed previously the fortifications of many such "cities of defence" by Rehoboam (2Chronicles 11:5-10). This record is remarkably confirmed by the celebrated inscription at Karnak (see Dict. of the Bible: "SHISHAK") enumerating the conquests of Sheshenk (Shishak), in which names of cities, partly in Judah, partly in Israel, are traced. The latter are Levitical or Canaanitish cities; and it has been conjectured that, much as the Pharaoh of Solomon's day took Gezer and gave it to Israel (see 1Kings 9:16), so the Egyptian army, coming as allies of Jeroboam, took, or helped him to take, those cities which were hostile or disloyal to him. It is not unlikely that the whole invasion was instigated by Jeroboam, in that desire to crush the kingdom of Judah which afterwards suggested his war with Abijam. (See 2 Chronicles 13)

Verse 25. - And it came to pass in the fifth year [that is, two years after king and people forsook the law of the Lord (2 Chronicles 12:11). Retribution seems to have overtaken Judah sooner than Israel. They had the less excuse, and they seem to have plunged deeper into idolatry and immorality (see Homiletics, p. 335)] of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt [to whom Jeroboam had fled (1 Kings 11:26, 40)] came up against Jerusalem. [This expedition is related with somewhat more of detail in 2 Chronicles 12:2-4. For Shishak, see 1 Kings 11:40. It was in the twentieth year of his reign that Shishak, once Jeroboam's protector and friend, invaded Palestine. It has been conjectured (Ewald, al.) that he was incited so to do by Jeroboam, and that the two kings waged war against Judah in concert (see on ver. 30). But as to this Scripture is silent; and moreover if Jeroboam summoned Shishak to his assistance, it is certain that his own kingdom did not altogether escape invasion; and it is perhaps more probable that the divided and weakened state of the country seemed to promise the Egyptian king an easy capture of Jerusalem, of the treasures of which he had doubtless heard. It is well known that a record of this expedition exists in the sculptures and inscriptions of the great temple at Karnak. The bassi relievi of the temple wall contain over 130 figures, representatives, as the names on the shields show, of so many conquered cities. Amongst these are found three of the "cities for defence" which Rehoboam had built, viz., Shoco, Adoraim, and Aijalon (2 Chronicles 11:7-10), while many other towns of Palestine, such as Gibeon, Taanach, Shunem, Megiddo, etc., are identified with more or less of probability. One feature in the list is remarkable, viz., the number of Levitical and Canaanite cities - cities of Israel - which Shishak is said to have conquered. The usual inference is that such cities, although in Jeroboam's dominions, had nevertheless held out against his rule - the former for religious reasons; the latter, perhaps, in the effort to recover their independence. Mr. Peele, however (Dict. Bib., art. "Egypt" ), accounts for the names on the supposition that Shishak directed, his forces against the northern as well as the southern kingdom, and certainly this seems to agree better with the facts. It is hardly likely that Jeroboam, with the army at his command, would tolerate so many centres of disaffection in his midst. Besides, the Levites, we are told, had migrated in a body to Judah; and the Canaanites at this period can hardly have been in a position to defy any Hebrew monarch. The silence alike of our historian and of the chronicler as to the invasion of Israel is easily accounted for by the fact that Judah bore the brunt of the war.]

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Hebrew
In the fifth
הַחֲמִישִׁ֖ית (ha·ḥă·mî·šîṯ)
Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular
Strong's 2549: Fifth, a fifth

year
בַּשָּׁנָ֥ה (baš·šā·nāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

of Rehoboam's
רְחַבְעָ֑ם (rə·ḥaḇ·‘ām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7346: Rehoboam -- 'a people are enlarged', a king of Judah

reign,
לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (lam·me·leḵ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

Shishak
שִׁישַׁ֥ק (šî·šaq)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7895: Shishak -- an Egyptian king

king
מֶֽלֶךְ־ (me·leḵ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Egypt
מִצְרַ֖יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

came up
עָלָ֛ה (‘ā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

and attacked
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Jerusalem.
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (yə·rū·šā·lim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel


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