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This chapter runs parallel with Kings (see the marginal reference), but considerably enlarges the narrative.

**All Israel with him -**i. e., “all Judah and Benjamin” - all the Israelites of those two tribes.

**Shishak ... came up ... because they had transgressed -**The writer speaks from a divine, not a human, point of view. Shishak’s motive in coming up was to help Jeroboam, and to extend his own influence.

**twelve hundred chariots -**This number is not unusnal (compare [Exodus 14:7](../../../kjv/exodus/14/7); [1 Kings 10:26](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/26)). Benhadad brought 1,200 chariots into the field against Shalmaneser II; and Ahabhad at the same time a force of 2,000 chariots (compare the [1 Kings 20:1](../../../kjv/1-kings/20/1) note).
The Lubims or “Libyans” [Daniel 11:43](../../../kjv/daniel/11/43), were a people of Africa, distinct from the Egyptians and the Ethiopians dwelling in their immediate neighborhood. They were called Ribu or Libu by the Egyptians. See [Genesis 10:13](../../../kjv/genesis/10/13).
**Sukkiims -**This name does not occur elsewhere. The Septuagint, who rendered the word “Troglodytes,” regarded the Sukkiim probably as the “cave-dwellers” along the western shore of the Red Sea; but the conjecture that the word means “tent-dwellers” is plausible, and would point rather to a tribe of Arahs (Scenitae).

See 1 the Kings 14:25 note.

**They said, The Lord is righteous -**i. e., they acknowledged the justice of the sentence which had gone forth against them [2 Chronicles 12:5](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/5).

Compare the repentance of Ahab (marginal reference) and that of the Ninevites [Jonah 3:5-10](../../../kjv/jonah/3/5-10) which produced similar revocations of divine decrees that had been pronounced by the mouth of a prophet.
**Some deliverance -**Rather, “deliverance for a short space” (see the margin). Because of the repentance, the threat cf immediate destruction was withdrawn; but the menace was still left impending, that the people might be the more moved to contrition and amendment.

**That they may know my service, and the service of the kingdom -**i. e., that they may contrast the light burthen of the theocracy with the heavy yoke of a foreign monarch.

**He prepared not his heart ... -**See the margin. Rehoboam’s sin was want of earnestness and consistency.

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