(A)And it came about in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, that (B)Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: (C)the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

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Help Not in Egypt but in God

31 Woe to those who go down to (A)Egypt for help
And (B)rely on horses,
And trust in chariots because they are many
And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But they do not (C)look to the (D)Holy One of Israel, nor seek the Lord!

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How then can you [a]repulse one [b]official of the least of my master’s servants and [c](A)rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:9 Lit turn away the face of
  2. Isaiah 36:9 Or governor
  3. Isaiah 36:9 Lit rely on for yourself