"[T]he expanding late-Iron I/early Iron IIA Gibeon/Gibeah (Saulide) polity to the north, into the Jezreel Valley or its margins, near the traditional old Egyptian stronghold of Beth-shean, and to the southwest, near the international road on the coastal plain, posed a threat to the revived Egyptian interest in Canaan in the early days of the Twenty-Second Dynasty. Sheshonq I de..