Side Lights Upon Bible History (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: He and the kings who he surrounded himself with Semitic and Hittite officers and courtiers, came after him, and who occupy little more than a generation, either figure in the lists as " Strangers," or their names are omitted altogether; and thus we see that the rise of the xixth dynasty?of the kings which knew not Joseph (Ex. i. 8)?did, in very truth, mark a reaction against Semitic influence and power.1 Eameses I., the earliest of these xixth dynasty kings, was succeeded, after a short and uneventful reign, by his more famous son, Seti I., who sought to legitimatise his rule by marrying the daughter of Amenhotep and of the Mesopo- tamian Tii. Herein we may see the explanationof that mysterious passage in Isaiah, in which it is said that God's people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause (lii. 4). But all this belongs rather to the region of fancy than of fact. Seti's real claim to dominion no doubt lay in his own vigorous personality; and a genealogical table of thirty centuries gone by will not be read by the learned without a smile. 1 Bee. N. S. ii. 60; Races of the Old Testament, 98. F Khuen-aten Adoring The Sun's Disk. XVIIlTH Dynasty. Ta-aken Aahmes = Nefertari Aahmes I Amenhotep I. Thothmes I. Hatasou = Thothmes II. Thothmes III. (Hasheps) '] Amenhotep II. Thothmes IV. = I 5S.S'= Amenhotep III. =Tii of Mesopotamia Dynasty. Rameses I. Amenhotep IV. T1iaa = Seti I. (Khuen-Aten) ] Rameses II. Menephtah Like the conquering kings of the xnth and xvmth dynasties, Seti I. carried his arms far and wide. He prosecuted with vigour the great war begun by Thothmes I. against the Hittites, who had taken advantage of the internal troubles in Egypt to push southwards...