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possessed when dwelling in Arabia Petrsea, for Jethro, the priest 

 of Midian, was recognised by Moses as a worshipper of the 

 true God. 



The Kenite record gives the names of all the Egyptian kings 

 down to the time of Exodus. By a comparison of other documents 

 with the Hittite, Mezahab, the great grandson of Jabez or Aahpeti 

 was the last of the Shepherd or Hycsos line, and from the day of 

 his deaMi began the reign of the Pharaohs who knew not Joseph. 

 The Kenite record places the history of Egypt in harmony with 

 that of the Bible by bringing the favourable Shepherd line down 

 to within two generations of the Exodus of Israel. These foreign 

 invaders had held the Egyptians in bondage 511 years. Mezahab 

 reigned on the throne of Thebes as Amenemes IV. He was an 

 idolater, and in order to conciliate the native Egyptians he added 

 to his name that of the ancestral god Horus, and called himself 

 Hormanub; but this did not satisfy the three ruling petty 

 sovereigns of Nubia, Syene, and Abydos, who had resolved to take 

 Thebes from the descendant of Jabez. Mezahab was successful 

 over his three rivals, but was unable to retain the integrity of the 

 Empire. Thothmes II., the Sovereign of Nubia (Amenemes IV. of 

 Thebes) made peace with Mezahab and married his daughter Matred, 

 who became the mother of Beriah (Rameses II.), I. Chron. vii. 23, 

 and of a daughter Mehetabel. Hadrai, an Hittite, the son of Saulof 

 Abydos, married Mehetabel, who was considerably older than her 

 brother Beriah. Hadrai (who styled himself Thothmes IV.) and 

 his royal consort Mehetabel took Thebes and strengthened his 

 brother-in-law's power. Here they erected two obelisks in memory 

 of her father Thothmes, one of which still stands amid the ruins 

 of Karnak ; she and her brother Beriah, who was crowned as 

 Rameses II. and as Thothmes III., representative and heir of the 

 ancient Egyptian line. The name Rameses, although not a personal 

 name, and thus valueless in the comparative study of tradition, is 

 useful in indicating the point at which the old line of Ra regained 

 Egyptian sovereignty, and confirms the Bible story of Egyptian 

 rule, and of Israelite oppression. The name is not mentioned in 



