The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 12:2-4
Shishak's invasion. I. THE INVADER . Shishak King of Egypt, the Sesonchis of Manetho, the Shashanq I. of the monuments. Originally the son of an Assyrian king named Nimrod, "who had met his death in Egypt and been buried at Abydos," Shashanq I. of the twenty-second dynasty established his seat of royalty at Bubastis, in Lower Egypt. His mother's name was Tentespeh, his wife's Tahpenes ( 1 Kings 11:19 ). One of his wife's sisters married Hadad the Edomite; another became the wife of... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 12:2
Shishak ; Hebrew, שִׁישַׁק ; Septuagint, σουσάκιμ ; Shishak, Sheshonk, Sesonchis, the Sheshenk I. or Shashank I. of the monuments, son of an Assyrian king called Nimrod or Nemaruth, became King of Egypt as first of six kings who lasted in all a hundred and seventy years, of the twenty-second dynasty of Manetho, reigning in Bubastis. To him Jeroboam had fled for refuge from Solomon ( 1 Kings 11:40 ). He reigned An. Sac. 3830 to 3851 or 3863. This makes Solomon's reign A.S. 3799 to... read more