mirrored file at http://SaturnianCosmology.Org/ For complete access to all the files of this collection see http://SaturnianCosmology.org/search.php ========================================================== A Quick Overview of Two Chronologies and Their Differences! ( # Denotes 9 contacts between Egyptian kings and kings of Israel or Judah after - 1100 BC.) For Old Kingdom chronology see Here or Here. These contacts are: 1) Saul/Agag (Apop) & Ahmose We read: "... Saul summond the men ... 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men from Judah and went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine." [1.Samuel 15; Annals, p3]; In the annals of Ahmose (the Ahimaaz of 1.Samuel 14:50) the person refered to as the "one" was first pharaoh himself but possibly also King Saul (depending on the translation of the hieroglyphics) who aided Ahmose in the overthrow of the Hyksos/Amalekite kingdom. At the appropriate places we discuss this ravine and the events which occurred in more detail. 2) Solomon/Hatshepsut [Senmut/Queen Sheba] "Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her ... When the Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions ... the report about your wisdom is true ... King Solomon gave the Queen of Sheba all she desired..." 2.Chronicles 8 and 9/Compare with Inscriptions at Deir el Bahari. Queen Hatshepsut visited Solomon after he had dedicated the temple in Jerusalem and imported already much wealth via his fleet of merchant ships. 3) Rehoboam/Thutmoses III [Pharaoh Shishak] We read:"Shishak, King of Egypt, attacked Jerusalem in the 5th year of King Rehoboam." 2.Chronicles 12:2/Compare with inscriptions of Thutmose III at Karnak Having first hand knowledge of the wealth accumulated in Jerusalem, Thutmoses III did not waste any time and invaded Judah in order to make it his own. 4) Asa/Amenhotep II [General Zerah] "Zerah the Cushite marched out against (Asa) with a vast army." 2.Chronicles 14:9 At this time Amenhotep II, or more probably his general, had made up his mind to also gain fame and fortune by invading Judah as his predecessor Thutmose III had, but he lost the war. 5) Jehoahaz/Sheshonk I [Savior of Israel] We read: "... the Lord's anger burned against Israel, and for a long time he kept them under the power of Hazael king of Aram (Damascus)... Then Jehoahaz sought the Lord's favor... and the Lord provided a deliverer for Israel." 2.Kings 13:1-7 Because of the success Sheshonk [Shoshenk] had of freeing the northern regions from the domination of the rulers in Damascus upon the request of King Jehoahaz, he (Sheshonk) also had himself made a commemorative carving featuring town names in the style used by Thutmoses III at Karnak. 6) Hoshea/Sesonk [Pharaoh So] "Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So, King of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the King of Assyria."2.Kings 17:4 The Assyrians were about to bring warfare and doom to the land of the Ten Tribes, Israel. A last request for aid went to Egypt but at that time the 22nd Dynasty kings were not prepared to meet such a formidable enemy leading to the permanent exile of the 10 tribes. 7) Tirhaka We read: "Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhaka, the Cushite king of Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. So he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, `Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.'" 2.Kings 19:9-10; Isaiah 37:9; 8) Josiah/Ramses II [Necho II] We read: "While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho, King of Egypt, went up to help the king of Assyria by way of the Euphrates River." 2.Kings 23:29-37 Just like Nebuchadnezzar had dreams of greatness, Ramses also had visions of grandeur and power [exemplified by his statues] which he tried to solidify by his brazen march to Kadesh/Carchemish, the seat of power of the Hittite/Chaldean general and later king Hattusilis/Nebuchadnezzar. But he lost the battle due to ill planning and later, after concluding a peace treaty, became an ally to Nebuchadnezzar by marrying his daughter. In retrospect and knowing about the war time adventures of Ramses II we can rightfully expect to find references to him in the Hebrew Scriptures albeit under a different name. 9) Zedekiah/Merneptah [Pharaoh Hophra, Apries] We read: "This is what the Lord says: `I am going to hand Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, over to his enemies who seek his life..." Jeremiah 44:30, Hophra is otherwise mentioned only by Herodotus]. Ramses II/Necho II had died and Merneptah became king over Egypt. He is known from the Bible as Pharaoh Hophra and from the Greek authors as Pharaoh Apries. In reality the 19th Dynasty is the same as the 26th and the 20th the same as the 30th Dynasty. For the most part of its history between 1450 to 50 BC Egypt was ruled by foreigners. There were three periods when Egypt was ruled by native kings, these were under the Theban Dynasty (18th/1020-830 BC), the Tanitic (19th/663-525 BC), and the Sebennytic (20th/391-341 BC), all together some 380 years. Some of the consequences of a revised chronology are: [The three ( at )) ampersands represent contacts during Old/Middle Kingdom times.] 1) When Egypt was laid low under the rule of the foreign Hyksos/Amalekites and their influence beyond the borders of Egypt was not economically beneficial but brought war and suffering, we find this situation reflected during what is called the period of the judges. 2) Monotheism was not an invention of Amenophis IV (Akhnaton) of the 18th Dynasty, a contemporary of King Ahab, but much more ancient. 3) Hatshepsut's famous mortuary temple at Deir el Bahari was not the pattern used by David and Solomon for the Temple at Jerusalem, but vice versa. Her voyage to Punt, the raid of Thutmose III into Punt and the attack of Amenhotep II or his general against Palestine are three events which in their particular details and spacing in time are told to us in the scriptures under the events of the visit of the Queen of Sheba, the invasion by Shishak and Zera. These three events did not take place twice some 600 years apart. Certain Egyptian poems, in particular those of Amenophis IV (Akhnaton) are now borrowed thoughts from the Hebrew Psalms. 4) When the wealthy and influential 18th Dynasty ruled Egypt we find in Israel too, much wealth and influential royalty in place. 5) Later when in Israel there was weakness and fear we find likewise weak kings in Egypt under the later 22nd Dynasty kings [Assyrian period]. 6) The convergence of ambitious and powerful kings in the lands of the northern Chaldeans and southern Egyptians who dreamed of becoming empire builders and the apostasy in Judah led to the Jewish exile in Babylon. These wars between Egypt and the northerners did not take place twice 600 years apart, first under Ramses II and then again Necho I. They were the same events. 7) When in Israel a new postexilic theocracy under Esra and Nehemiah came about we find in Egypt the 21st Dynasty of priest king's waxing and waning influence during the Persian period. 8) When in Israel this theocracy had caused the priestly rulers to isolate Israel from foreign policy adventures [during the Persian period], we find, that there are no records that the new, post-exilic Jewish state participated in the Wars of the Peoples of the Sea. These wars again did not take place twice some 800 years apart, first under Ramses III and then again under Nectanebo I, they were the same events. For our younger visitors we would like to point out that despite the huge number of books on Egypt and its ancient history that are published today and the apparent agreement among the various authors as to the times each king lived in, these time assignments are not based on sure evidence. 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