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Shishak in Wikipedia

Shishak or Sesac (Hebrew: שישק, Tiberian: IPA: [ʃiʃaq]) or Shishaq is the biblical Hebrew form of the first ancient Egyptian name of a pharaoh mentioned in the Bible. He is best known for his campaign through Israel and Judah, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 14:25 ;2 Chronicles 12:1-12 ). Shishak had provided refuge to Jeroboam during ...

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Shishak Scripture - 1 Kings 11:40

Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon....

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Shishak Scripture - 2 Chronicles 12:9

So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made....

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Shishak Scripture - 2 Chronicles 12:7

And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak....

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Shishak in Naves Topical Bible

-(King of Egypt) -Gives asylum to Jeroboam 1Ki 11:40 -Plunders Jerusalem 1Ki 14:25,26; 2Ch 12:2-9...

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Shishak in Smiths Bible Dictionary

king of Egypt, the Sheshonk I. of the monuments, first sovereign of the Bubastite twenty-second dynasty. His reign offers the first determined syncronism of Egyptian and hebrew history. The first year of Shishak would about correspond to the 26th of Solomon (B.C. 989), and the 20th of shishak to the 5th of Rehoboam. Shishak at the beginning of...

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Shishak in Easton's Bible Dictionary

=Sheshonk I., king of Egypt. His reign was one of great national success, and a record of his wars and conquests adorns the portico of what are called the "Bubastite kings" at Karnak, the ancient Thebes. Among these conquests is a record of that of Judea. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign Shishak came up against the kingdom of Judah w...

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Shishak in Hitchcock's Bible Names

present of the bag; of the pot; of the thigh...

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Shishak in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Sheshonk I in the monuments; first sovereign of the Bubastite 22nd dynasty. He comes before us without the ancient name of Pharaoh; he probably was a bold adventurer who supplanted the previous dynasty. Hence arose his hostility to Solomon, who was allied to a daughter of the former Pharaoh. By comparing Manetho and the monuments with 2 Chroni...

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Shishak in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

shi'-shak (shishaq (1 Ki 14:25); Sousakeim): 1. Shishak, 952-930 BC: Sheshonk or Sheshenq I, as he is called on the monuments, the founder of the XXIInd Dynasty, was in all probability of Libyan origin. It is possible that his claim to the throne was that of the sword, but it is more likely that he acquired it by marriage with a princess of the...

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