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1 Kings 14:25

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in 1 Kings 14

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
The examination of the famous inscription of Shishak at Karnak has resulted in the proof that the expedition commemorated was directed against Palestine, and has further thrown a good deal of light on the relations of the two kingdoms at the period. Of the fifteen fenced cities fortified by Rehoboam in the early part of his reign 2Ch 11:5-12, three, Shoco, Adoraim, and Aijalon are distinctly mentioned among Shishak’s conquests. Other towns of Judah or Benjamin also occur.

This site's exposition

Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem

on 1 Kings 14:25-26

Shishak's campaign in Rehoboam's fifth year has a record outside Scripture: the Bubastite Portal at Karnak lists a campaign into Palestine. He takes “all the gold shields that Solomon had made”. The book of 2 Chronicles adds that he came “because they had been unfaithful to the LORD”.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 14:25 · Written before 373.

proposed

Rehoboam spread and increased the idolatry introduced by Solomon after being instigated in this sin by his Gentile mother Naamah. And this seems to be hinted at in the Scripture which reports Rehoboam's apostasy just after mentioning his impious mother. Many examples that occur in …

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Fifth year - Presently after his and his people's apostacy, which was not 'till his fourth year: while apostate, Israel enjoyed peace and some kind of prosperity, of which difference, two reasons may be given: first, Judah's sins were committed against clearer light, and more powerful means and remedies of all sorts, and therefore deserved more severe and speedy judgments.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was strange that David would marry his son Solomon to an Ammonitess (for it was done while he lived), but it is probable that Solomon was in love with her, because she was Naamah, a beauty (so it signifies), and his father was loth to cross him, but it proved to have a very bad influence upon posterity.
And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam,.... Two years after he and his people fell into the above wicked practices: that Shishak, king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; of whom see 1Ki 11:40, this was suffered as a chastisement from the Lord for their abominations.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

These, it is likely, tempted him to make his descent; and, to save the rest, Rehoboam perhaps tamely surrendered them, as Ahab, ch. xx. He also took away the golden shields that were made but in his father's time,

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֛יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • בַּשָּׁנָ֥הin the year

    bashanahH8141 →877 times

  • הַחֲמִישִׁ֖ית<the> fifth

    hachamishitH2549 →

  • לַמֶּ֣לֶךְof the king

    lamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • רְחַבְעָ֑םRehoboam

    rechavamH7346 →50 times

  • עָלָ֛הhe came up

    ʾalahH5927 →890 times

  • שִׁישַׁ֥קShishak

    shushakH7895 →

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • מִצְרַ֖יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃Jerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 9:15–16

      King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.

    • 1 Kings 10:16–17

      King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

    • 2 Kings 16:8

      Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.

    • 1 Kings 14:25–28

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

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 12:2–9

      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

    • Proverbs 21:30

      There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

    • 1 Kings 14:25–26

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

    • 2 Chronicles 16:10

      Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

Where this verse is studied

What the record shows

1 entry
  • Shishak/Shoshenq I campaign (~925 BC)well-supported

    Bubastite Portal, Karnak

    verse:1ki.14.25

    Counterpoint: Shoshenq's own record at Karnak never names Jerusalem, and the towns it does list lie mostly north and south of Judah's heartland rather than in it. Kevin Wilson has argued the list follows Egyptian conventions for triumphal reliefs and cannot be read as a straightforward itinerary at all, and the date itself rests on Egyptian chronology that is debated within a decade or two.

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 14 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 14:25; F. W. Farrar, The First Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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