³ With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans,^(A) Sukkites and Cushites^[a](B) that came with him from Egypt, ⁴ he captured the fortified cities^(C) of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

⁵ Then the prophet Shemaiah^(D) came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon^(E) you to Shishak.’”