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with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. In addition, he also brought with him from Egypt a vast army beyond counting—Libyans, Sukkites,[a] and Ethiopians.

After Shishak had captured the fortified cities of Judah and had arrived at the outskirts of Jerusalem, the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and the commanders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them: “Thus says the Lord: ‘You have abandoned me, and therefore I have abandoned you to the power of Shishak.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 12:3 Sukkites: a people of east Africa; see the Suco of whom Strabo speaks, and the modern Suakim.