Word: shishak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were five Sheshonks who ruled Egypt during the 22nd Dynasty, founded about 950 B.C. If this long-dead king is the first of the Sheshonks-which further exploration may show him to be-then he is the same as the conquering, rapacious "Shishak" referred to in I Kings 14: 25-26: And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away...
...Professor Montet's mummy turns out to be the Biblical Shishak, † the find will be of more importance historically than the late Howard Carter's highly publicized discovery of Tutankhamen in 1922-since Tutankhamen was a footling little king who made no great impact on the affairs of his time...
...endowed Oriental Institute started digging there in 1925. The diggers found the palace of the Egyptian princes with a gaudily painted court and a washroom paved with seashells; a rich hoard of art objects in gold, ivory, lapis lazuli and electrum (gold-silver alloy); an inscription of the Pharaoh Shishak who plundered Jerusalem; and stables built by King Solomon large enough to house 300 horses...