1 Kings 14:25

25 It happened in the fifth year of king Rechav`am, that Shishak king of Mitzrayim came up against Yerushalayim;

1 Kings 14:25 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 14:25

And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam
Two years after he and his people fell into the above wicked practices:

that Shishak, king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
of whom see ( 1 Kings 11:40 ) , this was suffered as a chastisement from the Lord for their abominations.

1 Kings 14:25 In-Context

23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Yisra'el.

25 It happened in the fifth year of king Rechav`am, that Shishak king of Mitzrayim came up against Yerushalayim;

26 and he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Shlomo had made.

27 King Rechav`am made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.