And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
Ver. 25. Shishak king of Egypt.] Diodorus Siculus calleth him Sasokis; Justin, Susakis.
Came up.] Drawn by a desire of Solomon's ivory throne, say some; like as the pearls usually cast out with the flood and gathered with the ebb, drew Caesar's affection for the conquest of Britain. a
a Sueton.