Chapter Peu-à-Peu to Pharaoh of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

for Joseph comforts them with the promise that they shall surely be “visited” (Gen. l. 24), and begs them to take his bones with them when they are brought up out of the land-no grand funeral would be his.

4. The Pharaoh at the flight of Moses, I think, was Thothmes II.

5. The Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea. As this was at least eighty years after the persecutions began, most probably this was another king. Some say it was Menephthes son of Rameses II., but it seems quite impossible to reconcile the account in Exodus with any extant historical account of Egypt (Exod. xiv. 28). (?) Was it Thothmes II.?

6. The Pharaoh who protected Hadad (1 Kings xi. 19).

7. The Pharaoh whose daughter Solomon married (1 Kings iii. 1; ix. 16). I think this was Psusennes I. (dynasty xxi.).

(2) Pharaohs after Solomon’s time (mentioned in the Old Testament)—

1. Pharaoh Shishak, who warred against Rehoboam (1 Kings xiv. 25, 26; 2 Chron. xii. 2).

2. The Pharaoh called “So” king of Egypt, with whom Hoshea made an alliance (2 Kings xvii. 4).

3. The Pharaoh who made a league with Hezekiah against Sennacherib. He is called Tirhakah (2 Kings xviii. 21; xix. 9).

4. Pharaoh Necho, who warred against Josiah (2 Kings xxiii. 29, etc.).

5. Pharaoh Hophra, the ally of Zedekiah. Said to be Pharaoh Apries, who was strangled, B. C. 569-525 (Jer. xliv. 30).

(Bunsen’s solution of the Egyptian dynasties cannot possibly be correct.)

(3) Pharaohs noted in romance—

1. Cheops or Suphis I., who built the great pyramid (dynasty iv.).

2. Cephrenês or Suphis II. his brother, who built the second pyramid.

3. Mencherês, his successor, who built the most beautiful, though not the largest, of the pyramids.

4. Memnon or A-menophis III., whose musical statue is so celebrated (dynasty xviii.).

5. Sethos I. the Great, whose tomb was discovered by Belzoni (dynasty xix.).

6. Sethos II., called “Proteus,” who detained Helen and Paris in Egypt (dynasty xix.).

7. Phuoris or Thuoris, who sent aid to Priam in the siege of Troy.

8. Rampsinitus or Rameses Neter, the miser, mentioned by Herodotos (dynasty xx.).

9. Osorthon IV. (or Osorkon), the Egyptian Herculês (dynasty xxiii.).