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 | | Although the beginning of the Third Intermediate Period is marked by aggressive campaigns against Israel, relations with Byblos probably never ceased: statues of both Shoshenq and Osorkon II were found there, presumably sealing a commercial alliance (Kitchen 1986b: 292). |
 | | In Solomon's twenty-fourth regnal year Shoshenq gave refuge to Jeroboam and his followers, thus fostering the fragmentation of the Israelite state (Kitchen 1986b: 294). |
 | | The material result of this, recorded in I Kings and 2 Chronicles, was Shoshenq's seizure of the Temple's treasury and the impoverishment of the petty kings of Judah and Israel (Kitchen 1986b: 300). |
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