Because they were unfaithful to the LORD, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against them with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him from Egypt: the Libyans, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians — Punishment came swiftly: 'because they were unfaithful' (בְמַעַל אֲשֶׁר־מַעֲלוּ בַיהוָה), in Rehoboam's fifth year (בִּשְׁנַת־חָמֵשׁ לַמֶּלֶךְ רְחַבְעָם). Shishak (the Egyptian pharaoh) invaded (עָלָה שִׁישַׁק מֶלֶךְ מִצְרַיִם עַל־יְרוּשָׁלַיִם) with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen, plus allied troops (Libyans, Sukkiim, Ethiopians). The invading force was overwhelming.

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