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Shishak and Shoshenk

Moving backwards in time, the second pillar17 involves the following Biblical passage: [II Chronicles 12:9]

"So Shishak king of Egypt advanced on Jerusalem and carried off the treasures of the Temple and

the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything away, including the golden shields which

Solomon had made."

In 18 the fifth year of Rehoboam, who was the son of Solomon, Chronicles tells us of the successful

campaign of Shishak, king of Egypt, against the cities of Judah. After taking many of Rehoboam‟s fortified

towns, Shishak reaches the gates of Jerusalem and demands Rehoboam‟s capitulation. His price for not

razing Jerusalem to the ground is to strip the palace and temple of Solomon of all its treasures, taking them

to Egypt. From the description of this event, we reach our first „confirmation‟ of an event in Israelite history

from external sources.

This was first related to Egyptian chronology by Jean-Francois Champollion. Six years after he deciphered hieroglyphs, in19 1828 Champollion first visited Egypt. He stood beneath the monumental inscriptions of the temples and tombs and was the first person in perhaps 2000 years to read the utterances of Pharaohs and the gods directly from the very walls themselves. Champollion looked at the triumph scene of King Hedjkheperre Shoshenk I, cut

into the walls of the Karnak Temple. He recognized the faint outline of the Pharaoh – wearing the tall white crown of Upper Egypt, with raised right arm and, in his fist, the royal mace poised to crash down upon the heads of bound captives at the center of the smiting scene. On the other side of the wall stood the regal god and goddess of Karnak, both of whom were dragging towards the king tethered rows of oval name-rings surmounted with the heads of captive chieftains. The hieroglyphs inside the rings spelled the names of cities captured by King Shoshenk during his Year 20 military campaign into Palestine.

Champollion read the city names: Aijalon, ... Gibeon, Mahanaim, ... Bethshan, Shunem, Tanaach, Megiddo – all familiar from the Old Testament. He came to name-ring 29 and read the signs: y-w-d-h-m-l-k. He vocalized the consonants (the ancient Egyptians did not write vowels): Iouda-ha-malek – „Judah‟ (Heb.Yehud), followed by „the Kingdom‟ (Heb. ha-malcûth). Had Pharaoh Shoshenk conquered the Kingdom of Judah? Indeed! Champollion was delighted to have found a crucial chronological link between the events of the Bible and the history of the Pharaohs. From that moment on, Shoshenk I, became identified with the Biblical King Shishak. This event – according to Biblical chronology – was datable to the first half of the 10th century BCE, and is conventionally given the date 925 BCE.

The names Shoshank and Shishak

You can read on your own how Shishak could be the same name as Shoshank.

http://sedersforyou.tripod.com/Egyptian.seder.leader.guide.pdf

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Other identifications have been put forward which have been considered fringe theories. In his book Ages in Chaos, Immanuel Velikovsky identified him with Thutmose III. More recently, David Rohl's New Chronology identified him with Ramesses II, and Peter James has identified him with Ramesses III.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishak

http://www.northforest.org/BiblicalArchaeology/shishak.html