1 Kings 14:24-26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
24 There were also pagan priests in the land. Judah imitated all the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out of the Israelites’ way. 25 [a]In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, attacked Jerusalem. 26 (A)He took everything, including the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the house of the king, even the gold shields Solomon had made.
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- 14:25–28, 30 The narrator recounts Shishak’s campaign here to imply that it was punishment for Judah’s evil, and perhaps to cast him as supporting Jeroboam in his constant warfare with Rehoboam. (Shishak was named as Jeroboam’s protector and patron in 11:40.) Egyptian records of the campaign list one hundred fifty cities conquered in Israel as well as Judah, but Jerusalem is not one of them. Chronicles has a parallel version of this account in 2 Chr 12:9–11.
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