2 Chronicles 12:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

fifth year. If the 390 years of Ezekiel 4:5 date back from the 5th year of Jehoiakin's captivity, they end 874, the close of Shishak's invasion.

Shisliak. There is an inscription by Shishak on the outside of the south wall of the temple of Ammon at Karnac, in which he names the "king of Judah", and gives. list of 120 fortified cities he took.

against Jerusalem. See App-53.

transgressed. Hebrew. ma'al.

2 Chronicles 12:2

2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,