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In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand cavalry. A countless army came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.[a] He took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 12:3 Or Nubians; Heb Cushites

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