photo copyright Jurgen Liepe

First Kings 14 and 2 Chronicles 12 detail the campaign by Pharoah Shoshenq (referred to as Shishak in the Bible) against King Rehoboam of Judea. During his campaign, Shoshenq marched though the Kingdom of Judea, then north through the Jezreel valley. He then moved onward towards Beth Shean in the north and finally across the Jordan River before matching farther eastward. A list of the cities sacked during Shoshenq's campaign is preserved in the Karnak Temple in Thebes including the Israelite and Judean cities of Gibeon, Jerusalem, Megiddo (Armageddon), Aijalon, Beth Shean, and many more.

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