king of Egypt, declared war against Rehoboam in the fifth year
of the reign of that prince, 2 Chron. xii, 2, 3, &c. This Shishak,
according to Sir Isaac Newton, was the greatest conqueror, and the most
celebrated hero, of all antiquity, being the son of Ammon, or the
Egyptian Jupiter, and known to the Greeks by the name of Bacchus,
Osiris, and Hercules; was the Belus of the Chaldeans, and the Mars or
Mavors of the Thracians, &c. He made great conquests in India, Assyria,
Media, Scythia, Phenicia, Syria, Judea, &c. His army was at last routed
in Greece by Perseus; which, with other circumstances, compelled him to
return home.
of the reign of that prince, 2 Chron. xii, 2, 3, &c. This Shishak,
according to Sir Isaac Newton, was the greatest conqueror, and the most
celebrated hero, of all antiquity, being the son of Ammon, or the
Egyptian Jupiter, and known to the Greeks by the name of Bacchus,
Osiris, and Hercules; was the Belus of the Chaldeans, and the Mars or
Mavors of the Thracians, &c. He made great conquests in India, Assyria,
Media, Scythia, Phenicia, Syria, Judea, &c. His army was at last routed
in Greece by Perseus; which, with other circumstances, compelled him to
return home.