1 Kings 14:25

Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

26And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 12:2Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 14:22-31

Rehoboam's Disgrace and Death. ( b. c. 960.) 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they… Read the whole commentary →

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