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SECTION IV.

HISTORY OF THE PERIOD OF THE SHEPHERD-
DOMINATION.

In the present section I shall consider the most re-
markable memorials of a period of more than five
hundred years, during the greater part of which, chiefly
after the time of the Twelfth Dynasty, the Shepherd-
Kings appear to have been predominant. This portion
of the history of Egypt is the more interesting on
account of the manner in which it illustrates that of
neighbouring countries at this remote period.

Before considering the account which Manetho gives
of the invasion of Egypt by the Shepherds, it will be
proper to inquire what causes led to that remarkable
event, and how it came to pass that Egypt was so
easily subjugated by the foreign invaders.

In the fourteenth chapter of Genesis, we are told
that a great confederation of Kings, Amraphel, King
of Shinar, Arioch, King of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, King
of Elam, (Persia,) and Tidal, King of the Goim, or Gen-
tiles, invaded Palestine, and compelled the Kings of
" the cities of the plain" to become tributaries of Che-
dorlaomer, the chief of the confederation. " Twelve
years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
year they rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came
Chedorlaomer, and the Kings that [were] with him,
and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and
the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh
Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their Mount Seir,
unto El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness. And