Teks -- 2 Chronicles 12:9 (NET)

12:9 King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

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JFB: 2Ch 12:9 - So Shishak . . . came up against Jerusalem

After the parenthetical clause (2Ch 12:5-8) describing the feelings and state of the beleaguered court, the historian resumes his narrative of the attack upon Jerusalem, and the consequent pillage both of the temple and the palace.

JFB: 2Ch 12:9 - he took all

That is, everything valuable he found. The cost of the targets and shields has been estimated at about £239,000 [NAPIER, Ancient Workers in Metal].

JFB: 2Ch 12:9 - the shields of gold

Made by Solomon, were kept in the house of the forest of Lebanon (2Ch 9:16). They seem to have been borne, like maces, by the guards of the palace, when they attended the king to the temple or on other public processions. Those splendid insignia having been plundered by the Egyptian conqueror, others were made of inferior metal and kept in the guard room of the palace, to be ready for use; as, notwithstanding the tarnished glory of the court, the old state etiquette was kept up on public and solemn occasions. An account of this conquest of Judah, with the name of "king of Judah" in the cartouche of the principal captive, according to the interpreters, is carved and written in hieroglyphics on the walls of the great palace of Karnak, where it may be seen at the present day. This sculpture is about twenty-seven hundred years old, and is of peculiar interest as a striking testimony from Egypt to the truth of Scripture history.

Clarke: 2Ch 12:9 - Took away the treasures

Took away the treasures - Such a booty as never had before, nor has since, come into the hand of man

Clarke: 2Ch 12:9 - The shields of gold

The shields of gold - These shields were the mark of the king’ s body-guard: it was in imitation of this Eastern magnificence that Alexander constituted his Argyraspides, adorned with the spoils taken from Darius. See Quintus Curtius, lib. viii., c. 5, et alibi.

Defender: 2Ch 12:9 - Shishak, king of Egypt

An Egyptian inscription confirms this invasion by Shishak, a Pharaoh of Egypt's twenty-second dynasty, boasting of his triumphs in both the southern and northern kingdoms of Israel."

TSK: 2Ch 12:9 - Shishak // took away // the shields

Shishak : 1Ki 14:25, 1Ki 14:26

took away : 1Ki 15:18; 2Ki 16:8, 2Ki 18:15, 2Ki 18:16; Lam 1:10

the shields : 2Ch 9:15, 2Ch 9:16; 1Ki 10:16, 1Ki 10:17

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Poole: 2Ch 12:9

Upon which condition, and Rehoboam’ s submission to him, he delivered up to him the fenced cities of Judah, which he had taken, 2Ch 12:4 . But of this and the two next verses, See Poole "1Ki 14:26" , &c.

Gill: 2Ch 12:9-11 - So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,.... The Vulgate Latin version is,"departed from Jerusalem,''as he did, having taken it, and spoiled it of its riches, and settled a yearly tax on the inhabitants of the land; of this, and the two following verses; see Gill on 1Ki 14:26. 1Ki 14:27. 1Ki 14:28.