In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against the LORD,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 12:2 in context
2 Chronicles 12:1–5
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When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the LORD’s law, and all Israel with him.
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In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against the LORD,
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with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
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He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
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Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “The LORD says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’”
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