2 Chronicles 12:2

And it came to pass in the fifth year of Rehoboam ,.... In the fourth year, the apostasy of him and his people began; and, in the year following, what is next related happened, as a punishment of it:

Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem ; of whom see 1 Kings 11:40 ,

because they transgressed against the Lord ; transgressed the law of the Lord by falling into idolatry and other abominable evils; the Targum is,"against the Word of the Lord.'