And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
Shishak king of Egypt came up. He was the instrument in the hand of Providence for punishing the national defection. He was the first member of the 22nd dynasty, (see the notes at 2 Chronicles 12:1-16) - the Sh-sh-k of the Egyptian monuments. He was the Sesonchis of the Greek lists. [The Septuagint calls him: Sousakim.] Champollion discovered in one of the palaces at Thebes the Egyptian name of this king in a cartouche or hieroglyphic oval, and a figure representing a prisoner, with his hands bound behind his back, with an unmistakeably Jewish physiognomy, and with this inscription in the oval-Judah Melek kah, 'king of the country of Judah' (Champollion, 'Tab.,' 76; Gliddon's 'Ancient Egypt,' p. 9; 'Egyptian Court' (Crystal Palace), p. 33; Browne's 'Ordo Saeclorum,' sec. 513; Osburn's 'Mon. Hist.,' 2: pp. 99, 599). The names of Shishak and his successors of this dynasty are frequently found among the monumental ruins of Bubastis, in the east of the Delta, which they made their capital (Wilkinson's 'Ancient Egyptians,' 2:, pp. 428, 429).