The campaign of Pharoah Sheshonq I (blue line) into the areas of the newly sundered Hebrew kingdoms raises many
questions. For a start, we can't reconcile it with the existence of a kingdom in Judah, centred on
Jerusalem. Shshonk does not mention Jerusalem as a city. The campaign is conventionally dated to 926 BC, during the reign of Solomon's idiot son
Rehoboam, but could have occured anywhere from 950 to 905 BC. The scholar Israel Finkelstein has proposed a remnant Canannite entity to the north that survived into the two kingdoms period.
Sheshonq in the Hebrew Lands
The campaign of Pharoah Sheshonq I (bloue line), conventionally dated to 926 BC.
