1. When Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he abandoned the law of the Lord — he and all Israel with him.
2. Because they were unfaithful to the Lord, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem
3. with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 cavalrymen, and countless people who came with him from Egypt — Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.