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Jeremiah as reigning at the time when, those Jews (who were 
not carried captive to Babylon) fled to Egypt, which took place, 
according to our Bibilical chronology, B.C. 589. Hophra 
reigned rather more than eighteen years, according to the con- 
current testimony ofBrugsch* and Lepsius, from B.C. 590 — 572; 
consequently his twelfth year would fall within B.C. 580—579. 
Reckoning the Apis cycle at twenty-five years from the com- 
mencement of Amenophis III. ’s reign, B.C. 1580, the end of the 
fortieth cycle would fall in the year B.C. 580, the twelfth year 
of Pharaoh Iiophra's reign, and the very one recorded on an 
Egyptian monument as the date of the death of the fortieth 
Sacred Bull. 
48. An incident recorded by the Father of history affords, I 
venture to think, another possible synchronism between the 
histories of Israel and Egypt, in confirmation of the Biblical 
chronology. Herodotus (lib. ii. § 102) mentions the conquests 
of a Pharaoh under the name of “ Sesostris ” in Svria, where he 
erected pillars in commemoration thereof, stating that he had 
reduced to subjection those who withstood him by the might of 
his arms; but those, who submitted without a struggle, were 
specially designated by the proud conqueror as “ a nation of 
women, i.e. unwarlike and effeminate.” Sufficient remains of 
these memorials still exist on the rocks above the mouth of the 
river Lycus (now called Nahr el kelb), in Syria, to prove that 
they were erected by Rameses the Great, whose long reign (the 
British Museum contains a monument of his sixty-sixth year) 
extended from B.C. 1407-1311. On referring to Scripture, we 
have similar proof of the effeminacy of some of the nations of 
Syria at that exact period of history. For in the well-known 
story of Deborah — who appears to have ruled Israel for “ forty 
years,” according to Hebrew chronology, from B.C.13G1 — 1321, 
i.e. during the reign of Rameses the Great — when Jabin, King 
of Canaan, and Sisera the captain of his host came against Israel 
with his multitude of chariots and a mighty army, it is empha- 
tically recorded in the book of Judges (iv. 9, 23), that they 
were conquered by “hand of a woman”; and it is likewise 
added, “So God subdued on that day Jabin the King of Canaan 
before the children of Israel.” 
49. A further confirmation of the accuracy of the Egyptian 
chronology during the period of the rule of the Rameses, of 
* Ilistoirc d'Egi/pte, par If. Brugscli, Canon Chronol. desRois d’Egypte 
de Mencs jusqn’a Ncctanelos II.; Kiinigsbuch dcr Alten Acpyptcr, von 
C R. Lepsius, Synoptische Tafeln dor Aegyptischen Bynasticen. 
