Chap. 1.
The Original of Monarchies.
The whole earth — — two hundred years after Media & Persia
was grown into a Monarchy.
The great antiquity of the KindKingdom of Egypt makes it difficult to
give an a AcctAccount of the its Original thereof, but some footsteps there are of its thereof
thereof original in History. For in the seven years of the Kingdome of the Egyptians
under wchwhich Israel was in bondage seems to have comprehended but a small
part of Egypt, as well because in two days time the children of Israel
were scattered throughout all the land of this kingdom to gather straw
(Exod 5.12, 14) as because the King of this kingdom said that the children
of Israel were more & mightier then his people Exod.1.9. Psal.105.24.
Which in the seven years is an argument that Egypt then consisted
of many several small kingdoms of wchwhich this was but one.
In the seven years of plenty Ioseph — — — — And then Sesack
made a new regulation of the Noimes & built their Temples more
sumptuously.
Manetho an Egyptian Priest has given us the names of many
Kings reigning in several parts of Egypt — — — — — we shall find
hereafter that several Kings reigned after Sesostris who in the Dy
nasties are named before him.
So then the great antiquity of the kingdoms of Egypt grounded upon
the Dynasties of Manetho are is not to be relied on & the great Mo
narchy of Egypt notwithstanding those Dynasties might rise out of several
small kingdoms & those out of Cities combining under Common Councils
as was explained above.
Of
Chap. II
Of the
Ph ancient Phœnicians & their Colonies
in Egypt & Greece.
Sometime after the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt
a body of Shepherds from the east invaded & conquered Timaus king king
who reigned in of the eastern part of the lower Egypt & burnt &c— — —
Chap. III
Of the Monarchy of Egypt.
Egypt called in scriptur Misor Misraim & the land of Ham,
is a long & narrow broad valley — — — — — Tropic of Cancer, that
is in the north Latitude of 23 degrees.
One of the first great kingdoms in the world was ytthat of Egypt. For Pliny in recconing — — — the riches of Babylon Nineveh & Ecbatane.
Herodotus in giving an account of the ancient state of Egypt — — — —, Apries, Amasis, Psammenitus. To these kings I would præfix Ammon true father of Sesostris & Tethmosis Thamesis or Amosis who drave out the Shepherds & erected the monarchy, & S after Sabacus I would insert Sua & Tirhakah.
We are told in Scripture that Sesak came out of Egypt wthwith 1200 chenols — — — — answers to that of Sesak in scripture.
Diodor. l 1The father of Sesostris gathered together out of all Egypt the male children who were born the same day wthwith Sesostris & placed them with nurses & governours, prescribing & prescribed to them all the same form of education & go discipline, being perswaded that they who were so brought up with his son would be most faithful & usefull to him in his warrs. These children he brought, up wthwith exercises of dayly labours commanding that none of them should eat till he had run 180 gladia. by wchwhich means they became endowed wthwith strong and active bodies & great aspiring spirits minds. Hence I gather that the father of Sesostris was king of Egypt before Sesostris or Sesak was born & by consequence he was that Pharaoh king of Egypt who married his daughter to Solomon & took Gezer from the Canaanites & gave it to his daughter for a present. ffor Sesak as we shall show hereafter was of about yethe same age wthwith Solomons wife spouse & her little sister being a child who had no breasts, being then but a child a child.
Considering that Amosis beseiged the Shepherds after his father Misphragmuthosis had shut them up in Abaris: its probable that this siege was in the beginning of the reign of Amosis & so that Amosis might reign long after the expulsion of the Shepherds might reign long & so be contemporary to Saul & some part of the reign of David. For I reccon that he expelled the Shepherds after the victory of Samuel over the Philistines war of Samuel when Samuel by one single victory over yethe Philistines restored whereby liberty & peace was restored to Israel. 1 Sam 13, 14 & before the second year of the reign of Saul when a new & vehement & lasting war wthwith the Philistines brake at out 1 Sam 12 when yethe Israel wasIsraelites were again in bondage & the Philistines wthwith a very numerous army made a new & vehement & lasting war upon Saul & David & could not be subdued till after they had been beaten in many battels 1 Sam 12. According to Manetho he reigned after yethe explusion of the shepherds 25 years 4 months & Chrebron 13. Whence According to wchwhich recconing the reign of Amonophis will begin between yethe 20th & 30 year of about yethe 24th year of David, & that of his son Sethosis will be coincident with the reign of Sesak.
Iosephus tells L. 1. cont. Ap. out of Manetho that Tethmosis who expe after yethe Shepherds went out of Egypt to Ierusalem, Tethmosis who expelled them reigned 25 years & 4 months & then was succeeded by his son Chebron after whom reigned Amenophis. And after another king or two he makes names Mephramuthosis
Mephamuthosis Thmosis & Amenophis said to succeed one another & ascribing 30 years & 10 months to yethe reign of Amenophis as succeeding in Iosh & after some other kings (as Orus & Armeis (as Orus & Arm Armais or Danaus) wchwhich seem to be placed out of order, he makes names Armesses Miamun reign 60 to reign 66 years & to be suceeded by & his son & successor Amenophis the father & predecessor of & his son & successor Sethosis the brother of Arman or Danaus. The same successions of Kings are are recited out of the 18th Dynasty of Manetho by Africanus & Eusebius in his 18 th Dynasty wthwith a little variation of yethe names. ffor Africanus names them kings thus Amos or Amosis, Chebros, Amenophthis, Misphragmuthosis, Thuthmosis Amenophis — Rammeses, Ammenoph, Sethos. & Eusebius thus Amosis, Chebron, Amenuphiss - Misphragmuthosis, & Maphaxnothesis, Thomosis Amenophis, Ammeso, Themesses Menophis Sethos And in the 12th Dynasty Africanus recites these kings of Thebes as reigning in order. Ammenemes Gesongoses yethe son of Ammenemes, Ammanemes & Sesostris. All wchwhich being compared together seem but several repetitions of yethe same succession of kings, Sethos Sethosis, Gesongoses (or Gesonanosis) & Sesostris being one & the same king & whose predecessor was Amenophis, Amenophoriss or Ammenemes Amor, Amosis Thummosis succeeding in this order, Tithmosis Mephragmuthosis or Misphragmuthosis Amosis Ranimeses or Amesses; 3 Chebron or Chebros, 4 Amenophis, Amenophthes father of or Ammenemes; 5 Sethosis, Gegongosis, Sesoachosis or Sesostris Misphramuthosis, Tethmosis Mep MephragmuthosisMephramuthosis, Misphragmuthosis Tethmosis,Thmosis,Thuthmosis,Amos or Aosis,AmessesArmesses,Rammeses Chebron Chebros Amenophis,Amemophis,AmenophisAmenophophthisAmenophrus. Sethosis Mephraninthosis,- - - - Misphragninthosis TethmosisThmosis,Armesses Amosis ThthmosisRammeses Chebron Chabos. AmenophisAmenophis,Amenophis Osmanophthis AmenophisAmmenoph.Ammenemes.Ammanenes Fer SethosisSethosGesongoses or Sesostris same race of Kings succeeding in this order. 1 MephragmutaosisMephramutaosis, Mispharmuthosis or Misphragmuthosis. 2 Tethmosis, Thmosis, Thomosis Amosis, Ammeses Armesses, Rammeses, Rameses, Ramesses 3 Cheoron or ✝ Chebros. 4 Amenophis, Amenophthis, or Menophos, Ammenemes or Ammon 5 Sethos Sethosis, Gesongosis, Sesoncnosis, or Sesostris. Whether Chebron be rightly inserted or ought to be omitted I do not know [For Tethomosis and Amosis are plainly the same the one expelling the Shepherds & yethe other succeeding the Misphragmuthosis who shut them up in Abaris. Amenophis the predecessor of Sethosis is the same wthwith Ammenemes that Predecessor of Gesongosis or Sesonchosis & Sesostris.] Whether Chebron be rightly inserted or should be ought to be omitted I do not know.
The first King who began to extendextended the Dominion of Egypt over into foreign countries was Amenophis, Ammenemes or Amon the father of Isak Sesostris ffor Sesostris He who was first sent by his father with an army into Arabia, [that Arabia wchwhich lies] between Egypt & the Red Sea, & being accompanied wthwith those who his companions who were brought up with him, they overcame the want of water & food & conquered all that barbarous nation wchwhich till then had been unconquered. Then being sent towards the west he overcame a great part of Afric though but yet a youth. By The first of these conquests the Troglodytes & by the latter the Libyans of Marmorica & Cyrene came under the dominion of Egypt. And this seems to have given occasion to the trafick of Solomon wthwith into Egypt for horses. ffor [Cyrene was the country famous in those days for breeding horses] Egypt was supplied wthwith horses from Cyrene a country famous