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2. The _good_ Pharaoh who advanced Joseph (_Gen._ xli.). This was, perhaps, Apophis (one of the Hyksos).

3. The Pharaoh who ”knew not Joseph” (_Exod._ i. 8). This may be Amen'ophis I. (dynasty xviii.). The king, at the flight of Moses, I think, was Thothmes II.

4. The Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea. As this was at least eighty years after the persecutions began, probably this was another king. Some say it was Menephthes, son of Ram'eses 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 III.?

5. The Pharaoh who protected Hadad (1 _Kings_ xi. 19).

6. The Pharaoh whose daughter Solomon married (1 _Kings_ iii. 1; ix.

16). I think this was Psusennes I. (dynasty xxi.).

_Pharaohs after Solomon's time_ (mentioned in the Old Testament):

1. Pharaoh s.h.i.+shak, 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.

_Pharaohs noted in romance:_

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

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

3. Mencheres, 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 Herodotus (dynasty xx.).

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

=Pharaoh's Daughter.= The daughter of Pharaoh, who brought up Moses, was Bathia.

=Pharaoh's Wife=, Asia, daughter of Mozahem. Her husband cruelly tormented her because she believed in Moses. He fastened her hands and feet to four stakes, and laid a millstone on her as she lay in the hot sun with her face upwards; but angels shaded off the sun with their wings, and G.o.d took her, without dying, into Paradise.--Sale, _Al Koran_, lxvi.