2 Then, in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, Shishak, the king of Egypt, ascended against Jerusalem (for they had sinned against the Lord)
3 with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the common people could not be numbered who had arrived with him from Egypt, namely, the Libyans, and the Troglodytes, and the Ethiopians.
4 And he seized the most fortified cities in Judah, and he went even to Jerusalem.
5 Then Shemaiah, the prophet, entered to Rehoboam, and to the leaders of Judah who had gathered together in Jerusalem while fleeing from Shishak, and he said to them: 'Thus says the Lord: You have abandoned me, and so I have abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.'
6 And the leaders of Israel, and the king, being in consternation, said, 'The Lord is just.'
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