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hands of native Pharaohs in the time of Jabez, who was lord 

 of the whole land. Thothmes II., who married his great grand- 

 daughter Hatred, assumed the title of Rameses. 



Seti was the successor of Rameses II., the only Pharaoh of that 

 name ; he was the husband of Rameses' daughter, Sera or Tzira. 

 He styled himself Rameses Hekan ; he was a Hittite, and one of 

 the greatest and most warlike of Egyptian monarchs, and brought 

 all Egypt for the second time in history under one sceptre. He 

 carried out that great engineering feat which has been lately 

 reachieved in the construction of the Suez Canal. No monument 

 of this Pharaoh has been met with later than the twelfth year of 

 his reign. About this period Moses stood before him and demanded 

 the freedom of the Israelites. He perished with the Egyptian 

 army in the Red Sea. Soon after leaving Egypt, Moses sent spies 

 into Canaan whose report is very briefly given in the Book of 

 Numbers. In the south they found the Amalekites separated 

 from the rest of their Hittite brethren. In Hebron they found 

 Hittites in the three sons of Anak. During their wanderings in 

 the wilderness the Canaanites whom the spies saw dwelling by the 

 sea, and by the coast of Jordan, were Sidonians ; in the mountains 

 were the Hittites, and the Jebusites and the Amorites. The spies 

 appear to have begun at the north with Sidon and the Phoenicians, 

 next to whom came the Hittites, extending from Rehob to the 

 mountains of Bethel, the Jebusites in Jerusalem and Bezek, and, 

 finally, the Amorites in the south country. In their wanderings in 

 the wilderness Israel's only enemies were the Amalekites of the 

 desert, and a body of Canaanites, whose king was Arad. When 

 the Israelites came to the Amorite border no attempt 

 seems to have been made to combine the forces of the trans- 

 Jordanic tribes against them, which is probably an indication 

 that they were mutually hostile to each other. Joshua conquered 

 them in detail, first reducing the Amorite kingdom of Sihon, 

 which lay between Moab and Bashan, and by military 

 strategy he hindered combinations from that quarter. Og, 

 the king of Bashan, was then defeated. Joshua's first conquest on 



