CHRONOLOGY OF THE KINGS OP ISRAEL AND JUDAH. 259 



All the Assyrian data are thus shown to be compatible with 

 the Hebrew narrative. 



Turning from the synchronisms with the Assyrian annals to 

 those of Egypt, the first Pharaoh we meet with is Shishak ; to 

 whom Jeroboam lied in the time of Solomon, 1 Kings xi, 40, 

 and who came up against Jerusalem, B.C. 958, in 5 Eehoboam, 

 1 Kings xiv, 25. This king was certainly Sliashank Hez- 

 kheper-ra, the first King of Dynasty XXII. His date, according 

 to Manetho, reckoning from 340 B.C. as the close of native 

 sovereignty in Egypt, was 978 to 957, and this agrees with the 

 old Egyptian chronicle as shown in my Egyptian Chronology. 

 Assyriologers and Egyptologers alike have striven hard to 

 reduce this king's accession by 20 or even 50 years ; but they 

 have only done so to their own satisfaction by arbitrary altera- 

 tions without a shadow of proof. 



Zerah the Ethiopian, v.^ho came against Asa, 2 Chron. xiv, 9, 

 some time in the last 30 years of his reign, 930-901 B.C., comes 

 within the data limits of the same Egyptian Dynasty XXII, but 

 has not been certainly identified as yet, and is therefore not 

 capable of synchronic comparison. 



So or Seva, 2 Kings xvii, 4, to whom Hoshea sent between 

 731 and 722 B.C., when Shalmaneser " found conspiracy " in him, 

 was unquestionably Sabaca (Shabak) Dynasty XXVI ; his date 

 according to Manetho was 714-706 ; but, on comparison with 

 the monuments, the old Egyptian chronicle and Herodotus, it 

 appears that he was claimant to the throne of Egypt in succes- 

 sion to Kashta in the Ethiopian line as early as the time of 

 Zet and before Bokenranf, and therefore before 722. See on 

 this point my Egyptian Chronology, p. 81. In just the same 

 way we find Tirhakah, 2 Kings xix, 9, King of Ethiopia, coming 

 out to fight against Sennacherib in 702-1, although the date 

 usually given for Taharaka is 693 to 685. Here again Manetho 

 and the Chronicle require a date of 703 for this reign ; and S(j 

 does Herodotus, who calls him Sethon. The only way to 

 elucidate all these contemporary Egyptian dynasties will be to 

 tabulate them as follows : — 



