The military campaign conducted by Shishak in the Land of Israel is the earliest historical event described in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 14: 25-28; 2 Chronicles 12: 2-12), and which is also explicitly mentioned in an extra-biblical source: the list of the places conquered during the campaign was engraved on one of the walls at the entrance to the Temple of Amun-Re in Karnak.
The story in the Book of Kings is short and concise, and the information about the Egyptian campaign includes only its date and the name of the Egyptian king. The only unusual detail in this story, which occupies an extensive space of two and a half verses out of the four verses that describe the military campaign, includes the special and detailed description of the shields (probably signs carried before the kings of ...