1 Kings 14:25

When Rehoboam had been ruling for almost five years, King Shishak of Egypt came with his army to attack Jerusalem.

Translation for Translators

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

24Also, there were male prostitutes at these places of worship. The Israeli people did the same disgraceful things that had been done by the people whom Yahweh had expelled while the Israelis were advancing through the land.

26They took away all the valuable things in the temple and in the king’s palace, including the gold shields that Solomon’s workers had made.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 12:2As a result, after Rehoboam had been king for almost five years, Yahweh sent Shishak, the king of Egypt, with his army to attack Jerusalem.

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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