1. Now when the reign of Rehoboam was established and strong, he, and all of Israel with him, abandoned the law of the Lord.
2. And in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went up against Jerusalem for they had acted unfaithfully against the Lord,
3. with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horses. The people were without number who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiktes, and Ethiopians.
4. And he captured the fortified cities that were in Judah, and he came even to Jerusalem.
5. Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the rulers of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem before Shishak, and he said to them, “So the Lord says: You have abandoned Me, so I have abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.”
6. Then the king and the rulers of Israel humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”