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THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



BY JOHN CAMPBELL, M.A., 

 Professor of Church History, &c., Presbyterian College, Montreal. 



I.— INTRODUCTION. 



I have given the above title to this article, not because I propose 

 to confine myself to the individuals or families for whom the name 

 of Shepherd Kings has been reserved, but because the Asshuiites, 

 whose history I intend to trace, include the Hyksos and the. 

 ancient stocks with which they are most closely connected. In my 

 last paper on '' the Horites" I directed attention to a Shethite line, 

 which appeared in the annals of Egypt, Arabia and India as inimical 

 to the descendants of Seir. This line I there stated to be that of 

 Asshur, the father of Tekoa. Further researches in connection with 

 the family of Asshur have led me to the discovery of certain errors 

 of identification of which I was guilty in the article on the Horites ; 

 and notably that of the Persian Gilshah with Alvan, the son of 

 Shobal. Much confusion must also necessarily exist in the con- 

 nections of Jahath, the son of Alvan, and Ahuzam, the son of Asshur, 

 different as these names may at first sight appear. The magnitude of 

 the task of tracing even a single ancient line through the various 

 histories and mythologies of the world, in which its members appear 

 under many disguises and strangely entangled, must be my excuse 

 shoiild similar errors of judgment be found in the present article. 



The families of Asshur are given in 1 Chron. iv. 5, 6, 7, and are 

 mentioned nowhere else in the Bible. Asshur himself is spoken of, 

 however, in the second chapter of the same book at the twenty-fourth 

 verse, where he is represented as a posthumous child of Hezron, the 

 grandson of Judah, by his wife Abiah. By other wives, Hezron, we 

 read, was the father of Jerahmeel, Ram and Chelubai, and of Segub. In 

 no other part of Scripture is Asshur alluded to, and no other genealogy . 

 of the sons of Judah, except that which gives the descent of David 

 from Ram, the father of Amminadab, brings us down farther than 

 the mention of the Hezronites. The short story of his birth and 



