The unfinished fortifications of Jerusalem were stormed, the treasures accumulated by Solomon carried to the Nile, and the King of Judah compelled to acknowledge himself the vassal of Shishak.

Judah never recovered from the blow: had it not been for the Egyptian invasion, and the consequent loss of its hoarded wealth, it might have been able to suppress the rebellion of Jeroboam, and to reduce all the tribes of Israel once more under one sceptre.

The names of the captured cities of Palestine are still to be read on the walls of the temple of Karnak.
Shishak's successors of the Twenty-second dynasty did not inherit his military vigour and skill.

The central authority grew gradually weaker, and Egypt again fell back into the condition from which he had rescued it.

The tribes of the Sudan could no longer be hindered from attacking the enfeebled land, and Ethiopian princes made their way to Memphis, carrying back with them to their capital of Napata the spoil and tribute of a defeated and disunited people.