2 Chronicles 12:4

4 He took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 12:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 12:4

And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah
Which Rehoboam had lately built, and placed his sons in them, ( 2 Chronicles 11:5-12 2 Chronicles 11:23 ) , these he took without any opposition:

and came to Jerusalem;
there being no army to oppose him; and so Sesostris took many countries without fighting, and among the rest Phoenicia, as Manetho ^F15 relates, in which Judea may be included.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. c. 15.

2 Chronicles 12:4 In-Context

2 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

3 with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand cavalry. A countless army came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.

4 He took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

5 Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the officers of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the Lord: You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak."

6 Then the officers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is in the right."