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Chaim er nicia and Afric ; and not knowing that Judaea was inhabited byCanaanites, before the Ifraelites under Mofes came thither. Buthowever he lets us know, that the fhepherds were expelled Egyptby Amofis a little before the building of Jerufalem and the Tem-ple ; and that after feveral hardihips feveral of them came intoGreece, and other places, under the condudt of Cadmus, andother captains, but the moft of them fettled in Phoenicia nextEgypt. We may reckon therefore that the expultion of thefhepherds, by the kings of Thebais, was the occafion that thePliiliftims were fo numerous in the days of Saul; and that fomany men came in thofe times with colonies out of Egypt andPhoenicia into Greece; as Lelex, Inachus, Pehfgus, ^Ezeus, Ce-crops, iEgialeus, Cadmus, Phtenix, Membliarius, Alymnus, Abas,Erechtheus, Peteos, Phorbas, in the days of Eli, Samuel, Saul,and David. Some of them fled in the days of Eli from Mif-phragmutholis, who conquered part of the lower Egypt. Othersretired from his fucceffor Amofis into Phoenicia, and Arabia Pe-traea, and there mixed with the old inhabitants. Who not longafter being conquered by David, fled from him and the Phili f-tims by fea, under the condudt of Cadmus, and other captains,into Afia Minor, Greece, and Libya, to feek new feats; and therebuilt towns, erecfled kingdoms, and fet on foot the worfliip ofthe dead : and forne of thofe who remained in Judaea might af-fifl David and Solomon in building Jerufalem and the Temple.Among the foreign rites ufed by the ftrangers in Egypt, in wor-Ihipping the Gods, was the facrificing of men ; for Amofis abo-lifhed that cuflom at Heliopolis ( J ). And therefore thofe firangerswere Canaanites, fuch as fled from Jofhua; for the Canaanitesgave their feed, that is, their children to Moloch, " and burnt" their fons and their daughters in the flre to their gods,” Deut,xii. 31 ( 2 ). Manetho callsthem Phoenician lbangers.

X. After Amofis had expelled the flaepherds, and extended hisdominion over all Egypt, his fon and fucceffor Ammenemes, orAmmon, by much greater conquefts laid the foundation of theEgyptian empire. For by the affiftance of his young fon Sefof-

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(*) And Levit, xviii, 21.