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rufalem. We cannot err therefore above tvvo or three years, Tgeeexs.we place this vidtory over Edom in the eleventh or twelfth yearof bis reign ; and that over Aramon and the Syrians in the four-teenth. After the flight of Edom, thekingof Edom grevv up,and married Tahaphenes or Daphnis, the fi Iter of Pharaoh’squeen ( 7 ), and before the death of David had by her a fon calledGenubah, and this fon was brought up among the children ofPharaoh ( 8 ): and among thefe children was the chief or lirfi-born of her mothefis children, whom Solomon married in thebeginning of his reign ; and her little fifter who at that timehad no breafts ; and her brother who then fucked the breafts ofhis mother, Cant. vi. 9. and viii. 1,8: and of about the fameage with thefe children was Sefac or Sefoftris; for he becameking of Egypt in the reign of Solomon, 1 Kings xi. 40; andbefore he began to reign he warred under his father ; and whilfthe was very young conquered Arabia, Troglodytica, and Libya,and then invaded Ethiopia ; and fucceeding his father, reignedtill the fifth year of Afa : and therefoie he was of about thefame age with the children of Pharaoh abovc-mentioned; andmight be one of them, and be born near the end of David’sreign, and be about 46 years old when he came out of Egyptwith a great army to invade the eaft : and by reafon of his greatconquefts, he was celebrated in feveral nations by feveral names.

The Chakteans called him Belus ; which in their language figni-fied the Lord : the Arabians called him Bacchus ; which in theirlanguage fignified the great: the Phrygians and Thracians calledhim Ma-fors, Ma-vors, Mars; which fignified the valiant : andthence the Amazons, whom he carried from Thrace and left atThermodon, called themfelves the daughters of Mars. The'Egyptians before his reign called him their Hero or Hercules;and after his death, by reafon of his great works done to theriver Nile, dedicated that river to him, and deified him by itsnames Sibor, Nilus , and ALgyptus ; and the Greeks hearing themlament 0 Sibor , Bou Sibor , called him Ofiris and Buliris. Ar~

( 4 ) 2 Sam. x. ( s ) 2 Sam. viii. i. i Chron, xviii.

C) 1 Kings xi i$— 18.

( 7 ) Read, and married the JiJler of Tahaibsncs, or Daphnis, Pharaoh''s qucea. I Kings XI. I y.

(*) i Kings xi. 20.

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