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chronology of ancient egypt.
The 20th has no list of names assigned it, which
renders it somewhat doubtful. It may have been a
weak dynasty of the Eamses race, reigning at Thebes
contemporaneously with the new monarchy that
sprang up in the Delta on the decline of the Theban
empire.
In the 22d dynasty, the first king is " Sesonchosis
or Sesonchis." The name suggests that this is Shishak,
who took Jerusalem in the reign of Rehoboam; and
that such is the fact is proved by a memorial of this
event discovered by Champollion among the innume-
rable mural sculptures at Karnak. A king Sheshonk
is presenting captives of various nations to his god as
trophies of victory. One of these, distinguished by
a long beard and Jewish physiognomy, bears the hie-
roglyphic title Ioudah Malek, The Kingdom ofJudah.
The 24th dynasty lasted only forty-four years;
from this to the end of the succession the lists gene-
rally harmonize, and are corroborated by Scripture,
the Greek historians, and the inscriptions.
the first sixteen dynasties.
In regard to the first sixteen of the thirty-one
dynasties there is much more room for doubt.
That they did not reign successively is manifest.
This would give the first king the extravagant anti-
quity of near 6000 years before our era, incompatible
chronology of ancient egypt.
The 20th has no list of names assigned it, which
renders it somewhat doubtful. It may have been a
weak dynasty of the Eamses race, reigning at Thebes
contemporaneously with the new monarchy that
sprang up in the Delta on the decline of the Theban
empire.
In the 22d dynasty, the first king is " Sesonchosis
or Sesonchis." The name suggests that this is Shishak,
who took Jerusalem in the reign of Rehoboam; and
that such is the fact is proved by a memorial of this
event discovered by Champollion among the innume-
rable mural sculptures at Karnak. A king Sheshonk
is presenting captives of various nations to his god as
trophies of victory. One of these, distinguished by
a long beard and Jewish physiognomy, bears the hie-
roglyphic title Ioudah Malek, The Kingdom ofJudah.
The 24th dynasty lasted only forty-four years;
from this to the end of the succession the lists gene-
rally harmonize, and are corroborated by Scripture,
the Greek historians, and the inscriptions.
the first sixteen dynasties.
In regard to the first sixteen of the thirty-one
dynasties there is much more room for doubt.
That they did not reign successively is manifest.
This would give the first king the extravagant anti-
quity of near 6000 years before our era, incompatible