Founder of the 22nd Dyn. (c. b.c. 950). He reigned at least 21 years. Jeroboam fled to him (1Ki 11:40), and he plundered Jerusalem in the fifth year of Rehoboam (1Ki 14:25; 2Ch 12:2). A long list of Palestinian towns of Israel, as well as of Judah, was engraved by Sheshonk on the south wall of the temple of Karnak, but Jerusalem has not been recognized among the surviving names in the list. Max M