2 Chronicles 12:2

Shishak The Egyptian king has commemorated this expedition in a pictorial inscription on the wall of the temple of Karnak. It appears that the Northern kingdom suffered as well as the Southern, but no permanent conquest of Canaan was attempted. (Maspero, Histoire Ancienne, ed. v. pp. 360, 1.)

because they had trespassed] A touch characteristic of the Chronicler; cp. 2Ch 13:18; 2 Chronicles 21:10; 2 Chronicles 24:24; 2Ch 25:20; 2 Chronicles 27:6; 2 Chronicles 28:19; and 1 Chronicles 10:13-14. The Chronicler sees the working of temporal rewards and of temporal punishments everywhere.