Pharaohs of the Bible Part 2

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So you don't miss any of our upcoming speakers. And tonight we're thrilled to have back our new good friend, Brian young. Brian is with the creation instruction association and the semisaurus mobile creation museum.

Tonight. He's here to present part two of his pharaohs of the Bible talk. And some of you in homes in the homeschool world might recognize him as the science teacher of the master books academy online science courses.

So that's one of the other things that he does and we're thrilled to have him back with us tonight. So Brian, go ahead.

All right. Thank you.

It's great to be here. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen here so that you can see some of the slides and it'll be a little bit easier. I tried to put kind of a lot of the notes on there so that I thought maybe this way people could do screenshots if they need to and be able to get the information.

Correcting the Egyptian Chronology Against Scripture

Without having to write everything down. So, um, what we have here, uh, as long as everybody can see it is, uh, we kind of left off and just to try and catch you up. If you did not get to see part one, uh, you need to go back and do that because some of this, uh, well, all of it really is based on that, where we have adjusted the timescale or the timeline of the Egyptian Pharaohs, not just because we wanted to, but because facts are demanding that something's wrong.

And we showed why it's wrong and why we are able to correct it, even from Egyptologists themselves saying that it needs to be corrected and reasons for it. But anyway, um, what we have done is just shown you that the Exodus has taken place at the end of the 12th dynasty, rather than in the 18th dynasty that is so often, you know, portrayed by other people here today.

And so, um, what I want to show you as we left off at the end of the 12th dynasty, when the Israelites left Egypt, somebody comes in, Josephus talks about a group coming in that took over Egypt without a battle.

Well, how does that happen? And we said, well, if the army is at the bottom of the red sea, it would be easy to do that. And Josephus called them the Hyksos. Well, here is a mummy of one of the Hyksos and it was King Apophis or Apophis.

And he basically, when they came in, there was a new Egyptian guy and they, it kind of put him into subjection and whatnot. And so the pharaoh ruler at that time, they were kind of ruling together in some senses, uh, with the Egyptian one, not having much power, but what he did is he was accusing, and the records tell us, accusing the Egyptian king of digging a canal, which was causing the hippopotami to make all this kind of noise and whatnot.

And it was keeping the king up at night. And so they battled and fought over this because they were just, you know, having a bicker, a quarrel. And so the Egyptian guy decided to rebel against the Hyksos king here, and we see that he lost, and so what we see is his skull, just as the records tell us, has been found with a battle ax hole in it.

So it just kind of confirms the history that we're seeing here, that just like they went to battle and we see that this guy dies in battle with an ax head in his.

Head.

Now, um, what we're going to do, I'm going to try and get this. I don't know if you can see that or not, but there's a thing right in front of all my pictures. So hopefully this isn't in your way, but, um, Thutmose the first is going to be kind of at the 18th dynasty and he is going to have two different daughters, Neferbite and Hatshepsut.

Both of them are quite famous names. Hatshepsut, we'll see later, she's going to become the sole ruler. And as far as Neferbite goes, we, the name is familiar, but we don't know a lot about her. The scholars don't know why she seems to just kind of disappear.

I'm going to suggest that the possibility is there that she married Solomon, and we'll explain why here as we go. Now, again, I just want to put a little disclaimer as we go through this. We are entering into what history shows us.

We're going to just kind of put the Bible, you know, over top of it. And we're going to see that things line up, but I never want to let scripture be interpreted by history or culture, uh, things like that.

Scripture has to interpret scripture. So while some of this is going to be interesting, and I think that it is a good thing to solidify our faith, we do not want to make doctrines out of this. And so, um, I may make some suggestions here, but that's all that they can be because scripture interprets scripture and scripture is silent on some things.

But you're going to see that when we overlay history in scripture, that there are a lot of things that do seem to line up with a corrected timeline. If we do not correct the timeline, you're going to see that the Bible does not agree with history at all.

And so, uh, with that, I'm starting with my Bible and I'm seeing history is saying something's not right. Therefore, I think it's safe to say we can reject that history, whether the history I'm presenting to you is exactly right or not.

I don't know.

I think there's a very good chance of it, but nonetheless, I know since the others contradict the scripture, that's not right. And that's kind of how I operate. Well, anyway, as we continue here, here, the Egyptian pharaohs that, uh, I'm going to kind of take a little side trail here, the Egyptian pharaohs are important because they are the basis for all of modern archeology today.

And that means that all these archeological dates that you're hearing about Jericho or David or Solomon or any of them, all are based off of the Egyptian dynasties first. So if the Egyptian dynasties are wrong, then all of the archeological datings that we get pretty much are wrong too.

Well, interestingly enough, the archeological dates that we're hearing that, you know, Jericho is 9 ,000 years old and whatnot seems to contradict the Bible in a young earth. I believe when looking at the genealogies, we see the Bible is about 6 ,000 years old.

So therefore I would say it's pretty safe to throw that out. Again, the traditional dating, the traditional chronology is not lining up with what we see in scripture. Now I showed you last time that the traditional dating of the Exodus was 1445 BC in the 18th dynasty.

Now I believe 1445 BC is right. I just reject 18th dynasty. That's because the dynasties are what are needing to be adjusted, not the dates themselves. So with this being the case, we know that Jericho is going to fall about 80 years later.

Why?

Well, they're going to, uh, 40 years later.

Why?

Because they go and spend 40 years out into the wilderness. And after 40 years in the wilderness, they get to enter the promised land. So 1405 BC Jericho is going to fall. And then just following that timeline, we see it's about 10, 10 BC, somewhere in there that David will become King.

That being the case in the traditional chronology, that puts Jericho's fall in what traditionally is called the late bronze LB. So just remember that LB, MB for middle bronze. Those are going to be important dates when you even look and study archeology at all.

Therefore, David is going to begin in the iron age too. Now, again, that's traditional. I'm going to reject that, but that's what you're going to be talking about for the most part. Now you would think then with an Exodus taking place, you know, well over a million people, probably 2 million people being out there in the desert, that there would be some evidence of these guys wandering around in the Sinai Peninsula somewhere, right?

But we don't see anything in the 18th dynasty, uh, or that period of that happening in archeology at all. It's interesting though, that in the middle bronze period, we have in archeology, all kinds of new people arriving and settling in the land of Cana, which would be the promised land.

But the archeologists reject that as being evidence that Israel was out there wandering around.

Why?

It's the wrong time period. You see, they're not supposed to come until the late bronze. And we're seeing this in the middle bronze. Well, on the corrected timeline, it puts it in the middle bronze period.

And therefore this is evidence of the Israelites being out there in Egypt. And as far as the iron age two period here, we know that when David and Solomon are King, Israel is prosperous. It's everybody's living in prosperity.

Remember Solomon made silver as common as stones. And yet archeology teaches us that the iron age two period is in poverty. So once again, what we're seeing is what the Bible is telling us and what traditional chronology is telling us.

They don't agree. Well, I can tell you that the Bible is not the one that's wrong. So out goes the traditional chronology. And if you look at what we've been talking about last time I spoke, you see that with the corrected timeline, all of this is fixed and the Bible and the history are no longer at odds with one another.

And so here is the adjusted chronology. What I believe is to be true that the Exodus is in 1445 BC, just like we said before, but that's in the 12th dynasty, not the 18th Jericho is falling, not in the late bronze, but in the MB1 there's like a middle bronze one in the middle bronze two and so on the middle bronze one period.

And then David becomes king in the middle bronze two period, not the iron period. So again, how do we justify this? A lot of that has to do with the pharaohs that we talked about last time. So I'm not going to get into all of that too much to save some time tonight.

You need to go back and watch that first one, but they're just following what I said before. It's all lining up. So just this is maybe a good screenshot for you that we see Abraham is born. What would be called the early bronze period somewhere in this time, the 40 years in Jericho, 40 years out in the desert, I should say, before they fall early bronze.

Then when they fall, Jericho falls when they're first coming into the promised land is the MB1, middle bronze one. As I said, middle bronze two for David. And then this just kind of shows you repopulating after the return of the exile into Babylon here in the Iron Age one period.

So I've highlighted in different colors here the ones that are most important maybe to look at. And Abraham being born somewhere around 1950 B .C., just giving you those dates. So anyway, this is just kind of a little guide for you.

Well, back to some of these pharaohs and Thutmose, Thutmose the first. Now, traditional skeptics will tell you that Solomon, as I said, wasn't rich.

Why?

Well, because what we see in archaeology during that time period, they were in poverty. So, of course, they say the Bible's wrong, not their interpretation. That's the wrong way to go. And so we've kind of talked about how their revised chronology fixes that.

Well, here is the tomb of Thutmose up in this king, in this valley here and in the side of the hill. Now, Thutmose is the first. Here's a picture of him. He's just another pharaoh. I'm going to show you a lot of pictures tonight.

He had this obelisk made. It was over 21 meters high. As always, they would write on them, give you all kinds of things. And here is the city of Gizir. And the Bible records in 1 Kings chapter 9 that Gizir was attacked and destroyed by a pharaoh of Egypt.

It says Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had gone up and taken Gizir and he burned it with fire. He had killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city and he gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

So scripture tells us Gizir was conquered and burned. Well, it's interesting because we have positively identified the tell of Gizir. And guess what? It has been burned, just like the Bible says. So who was this daughter that Solomon married that a pharaoh is coming and conquers this town and gives it as a gift to it?

Well, I'm going to suggest to you that it is the possibility it is Nephrubitti. According to the timeline that has been corrected, this would be the pharaoh that would be in rule at that time. So that is one of the daughters of Thutmose I.

If that is the case, then it's Thutmose that actually burns Gizir. Here are some pictures of carbonized wheat, wheat that has been burned during the archaeological digs there when they excavated that place.

So no question the Bible is showing accurate history here. Now, there is no mention in history outside of scripture of Thutmose coming in and conquering Gizir here. We see scripture and it doesn't even name him.

It just says the king of Egypt pharaoh was doing this. Now, the interesting aspect is the location of Gizir here, because we do see that the pharaoh was on his way to conquer in Syria and it is in a direct path of going to Jerusalem to Syria.

And therefore, it would make some logical sense anyway, that on the way he conquers this town and then gives it to his daughter. Now, Thutmose I didn't have any sons by his royal wife, the queen, but he had a second wife who gave him a son that they obviously named Thutmose II.

And Thutmose II married a gal named Hatshepsut, which would make him the half sister then. And so Thutmose II reigned for four years and Hatshepsut and Thutmose II did not have any sons together either.

But Thutmose II then, as many of them did, went and got a second wife named Isis, who did give him a son who they named Thutmose III. And Thutmose III we'll talk about later. He becomes very famous and he basically is about 12 years old when his father dies and Hatshepsut then begins to rule in the place of Thutmose II.

So here's a picture of Hatshepsut. Now, again, as I spoke about last time, we know this is Hatshepsut. There's no guesswork in this because when they make these statues, they put what are called cartouches on the shoulders oftentimes and their name is on it.

They literally wear name tags. And we find in Egypt history that she ruled for seven years and then took the title of king. She was probably just a young girl of 15 when Thutmose II died and basically 22 years old then when she became pharaoh.

So the question is, is Hatshepsut the queen of Sheba spoke about in scripture? The timeline would fit. Now, again, don't make a doctrine out of this, but I want to show you that the queen of Sheba, who's Sheba?

We don't know what Sheba is. Well, Jesus himself in Matthew chapter 12, verse 45, identifies her as the queen of the south. Well, go and read in Daniel chapter 11, and it's talking about this battle with the king of the south, which is the king of Egypt, Pharaoh.

So if Daniel is identifying the king of the south as Egypt and Jesus says the queen of Sheba was the queen of the south, is it possible that she is the queen of Egypt? Well, yes, even Josephus, a historian around the time of Christ, says she was the queen of Ethiopia and Egypt.

So we have some history that seems to be backing up this corrected timeline and Hatshepsut is actually the queen of Sheba that came to visit Solomon. We'll talk more about her in a minute. Now, you can see up above here, clearly this is a woman for obvious reasons that I don't need to mention.

Now, she was dressed in feminine clothing. She looks feminine in every way initially. Later on, however, you see her with the pharaoh's beard that they would do. And again, we know this is Hatshepsut and she looks very manly.

Her feminine features are taken out. And so very unique pharaoh. She built all kinds of obelisks and one of them was 136 feet. And this one here was apparently never stood up or something because a flaw was found in the stone.

But hers is on the right. And Thutmose I is on the left there. But hers was even bigger. So here is a picture of her. And I mentioned last time that many times these pharaohs like to be pictured as being birthed by the gods.

And so here we see the god Amun being on the birthing stool. And basically, they would teach in the picture here that Amun, the god, had occupied the body of Thutmose I to impregnate her. And as a result, this gives kind of some divinity to her.

She built this huge mortuary temple here on the banks of the Nile. And inside here, she's got all kinds of depictions and hieroglyphs explaining, I don't know, a campaign that she went on that was to a land of Punt.

Now, we don't know what the land of Punt is, but I'm going to make some suggestions. Notice as well the ramp that goes up this temple. This is unique to all of Egypt. And I'll come back to that here in a little bit.

Well, inside that temple, we have these pictures of all these Egyptian soldiers going to the land of Punt in boats. And she describes this and shows pictures of bringing all kinds of things back from the land of Punt.

Now, what's interesting about it is in 1 Kings chapter 10, verse 10, it says, when the queen of Sheba, who we are saying may be Hatshepsut, heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.

Now, the idea might be this. Why or how did she hear of the fame of Solomon and concerning Yahweh, the Lord? Well, if it was Hatshepsut, that would mean Neferubitti is the one that Solomon marries. So you've got basically sisters.

She would have another reason to come to see Solomon, to find out about things through Neferubitti, and also to then come and check it out. So most people traditionally put the the queen of Sheba as this gal named Marib.

There's just no evidence of it. There's a book that was called Sheba's Buried City, and that's kind of where it comes from. But it's just mentioned without any evidence to really support it. And so archaeologically, there's nothing.

We're going to show you there's some archaeological evidence to suggest there's something different going on here. So what we see is the descriptions of Punt. In her temple, it describes the land of Punt as God's land, a beautiful land.

Other records say Punt was in Palestine, whereas traditionally people say it was probably a place in Africa. Why? Because of the pictures that she brings back or the stuff she brings back and then puts the pictures on the wall have plants that seem to be from Africa.

So that's as far as it gets. And that's why they think Punt must be in Africa. But we see other Egyptian records say it's in Palestine. It's God's land and so on. First Kings 10 .10 says that when Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.

Well, she brought all kinds of stuff to Solomon, doesn't she? Ecclesiastes 2 says Solomon was an avid gardener and he imported trees and apes from Africa. Solomon was getting stuff from all around the world on a regular basis, peacocks, you name everything.

And it says that when the Queen of Sheba left, she left with more than when what she brought with her. So is it possible, since Solomon is an avid gardener, Solomon is getting stuff from Africa and all around the world, that some of the plants that she brought back that seemed to be unique, that seemed to be coming from Africa, could have really come from Palestine and from Solomon, who gave them to her as a gift, since it's called the God's land, beautiful land and seems to be in Palestine.

It makes logical sense. So King Solomon gave the queen everything she desired. She brings this stuff back and puts pictures of it on her temple walls. The scriptures also tell us, though, that when she visited Solomon, she was impressed by the way that he ascended up to the temple.

Well, you see, the Bible tells us that when the Israelites built their altars, they were unique, they did not have steps. Because they might expose themselves. And God said it was to be basically a ramp.

So she was impressed by the way Solomon ascended. I don't know what it means. It's just what scripture says. But what we do see is that when she comes back to Egypt, she builds this mortuary temple and she has an ascent to it.

That is exactly what we see in the temple, the ramps. So along with the other pictures of the things that she brings back from the land of Punt are piles of frankincense, myrrh, monkeys, gold, all of these things listed there, all of which Solomon would have had.

So possibility.

Thutmose III and the Plundering of Jerusalem

Now, Thutmose III, he grows up then and he's about 30 years old and he takes over for his mother. After 22 years of peaceful reign, Hatshepsut just leaves the scene in Egyptian history. So for 22 years, she reigns.

She seems to be very powerful and does a very good job and is living at a time of peace. That's what we see during the time of Solomon, time of peace, no battles going on. And then Thutmose III, her son, comes up.

Well, for one of the first things he does is he goes around and he starts desecrating all of the pictures and statues of Hatshepsut, chiseling off her images. So he did not like her very much. Apparently, he became one of the mightiest pharaohs.

He led 70 different military campaigns. There are statues of him all over the place. And he conquered 119 different cities. In New York City, there is a statue of him there. So here is Thutmose III. He built a number of different obelisks that are around the world, one of them 455 tons.

Here's one in Istanbul. The base of it, there's a picture of floating this thing on a raft to its site. Here's one of the churches in Rome. Here's another one of his obelisks that are 105 feet tall. He recorded, like I said, he was one of these great pharaohs.

We know a lot about him. And some of the pictures that we see are of his military campaigns that he takes. Now, each one of these bodies, remember, he conquered 119 different cities. Each one of these bodies represents one of his military campaigns.

Well, one of them, the writing describes it was an attack on a city called Kadesh. Now, if any of you know Hebrew, that's a very important word. It means holy. As a matter of fact, Jerusalem is often called Kadesh.

Now, Rehoboam is Solomon's son. So remember, just following a timeline, we see that Thutmose III is taking over for his mother, Hatshepsut. Well, Solomon, who takes over for Solomon? Rehoboam. So we're going to see that the timeline is right, that Thutmose III is going to be ruling when Rehoboam is ruling.

Well, shortly after Rehoboam becomes king there in Israel, in 1 Kings chapter 14, verse 25, you can read about it. There is a pharaoh that comes and takes away the gold shields that Solomon had made and takes them back to Egypt.

Well, notice nothing is said in the scriptures that he conquers Israel. He simply plunders them, takes away their shields and things like that. Well, there is a lengthy description on one of Thutmose III's release here talking about his military campaigns, and it is talking about the attack of Megiddo.

Now, if you've ever been to Israel, Megiddo is not far from Jerusalem. And we see that on the relief of Egypt, it says that the king of Kadesh came to help Megiddo. The question is, is Kadesh Jerusalem?

Keep in mind, it means holy. Well, the record goes on and it says that the Egyptians were defeating the town of Megiddo. And these people of Kadesh that came to help them were scared. So they ran into the city, they shut the gates, and then they started like lowering clothing and things down along ropes so that they could lift people from Kadesh over the walls and come to safety into Megiddo.

So when that they were in Megiddo, the Egyptians went and plundered Kadesh and took all kinds of things away. Why? Well, because their army is now in Megiddo, locked up. So they went to collect the spoils of war and they say they could have killed, you know, and destroyed Megiddo and all this, had they not been more concerned about going and getting all the spoils of war.

This is what it says, if only his majesty's army had not given up their hearts to capturing the possessions of the enemy, they would have captured Megiddo at this time while the wretched enemy of Kadesh and the wretched enemy of this town were being dragged hastily to get them into the town.

Thutmose was elated and it says the capturing of Megiddo is the capturing of a thousand towns. So he was all excited. Now, again, they kind of elaborate and stuff like that when they write of their recordings, their campaigns and so on.

But look what it says in First Kings 14, kind of mentioned it, but here it is in scripture. It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house.

He took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields which Solomon had made. So, like I said, there's no record of Shishak fighting against Jerusalem, just taking the stuff. And so that seems to fit the possibility here.

Now, you may say, yeah, but it's Thutmose III and Shishak, those are different names. Yep. When we even study Egyptian history, like I said, they have all kinds of different names. And sometimes people in Israel call them what the Israelites called them, not what the Egyptians called.

So this is not uncommon at all. As a matter of fact, this is the norm of what we see in history so often. So that's not a problem either. That doesn't bother me one bit. Let me just show you what scripture says, where it does call Jerusalem Kadesh at times.

Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your Kadesh city, your ear. Yeah. So holy city is Kadesh. In Nehemiah, cast lots to bring one of the ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the Kadesh year, the holy city.

Isaiah 48, too, they call themselves after the Kadesh year, the holy city. So it's not too much of a stretch to say that Kadesh could be Jerusalem when we see it even being called that in scripture. Now, on the wall of Egypt here.

There, not only left, he not only left a record of the battles, these military campaigns, but he also showed pictures of the loot that they got from these military campaigns. And so from this military campaign of conquering Megiddo and Kadesh, looting Kadesh, they have pictures of 300 gold shields.

That's what we just showed you. The Bible says the king came of Egypt, came and took away from Rehoboam. Not only that, but what looks like even the Ark of the Covenant here with its poles, not saying it is the Ark of the Covenant, but something that looks like that.

Two gold doors and a bronze altar. What looks like a menorah. So some similarities, I'm not going to say, hey, 100 fact, but nonetheless, this is exactly what we would expect him to take. And this is what we see.

They basically took all these things from Jerusalem. So Pharaoh Shishak possibly could be Thutmose III. Now, usually they try to identify Shishak with Shishank because, well, it rhymes almost, you know, but he is of the 22nd dynasty.

He left a list of cities on the south wall of the Temple of Karnak, just as Thutmose did. But in his reliefs, in his records of his military campaigns, there's no mention of Jerusalem, no mention of Kadesh, none of that.

Not to mention that with Pharaoh Shishank, some of the cities that he mentions ceased to exist 400 years before Shishank. So it can't be Shishank, basically. What we're saying is the two aren't the same.

Anyway, with that, we next then get to the Amenhotep. Amenhotep II is the guy that takes over for Thutmose III. Here he is pictured in front of this god. Remember, they worshiped cows. But he's also pictured, he's in front being protected and in back being nourished, drinking out of the udder of this cow and getting nourished from the gods, basically.

So here's just a close up of that. Now, this is from the 18th dynasty, or I should say from the 18th dynasty on. The kings are going to be buried in tombs that were cut out of cliffs, like I showed you that picture before.

We're going to see that Amenhotep here is going to boast about two major military campaigns into the land of Palestine. And as a result of that, we're going to propose that he may be Zerah, the Ethiopian that's mentioned in scripture, that King Asa defeated.

And that's listed in Second Chronicles 14. It says this, Asa had an army. Then Zerah, the Ethiopian, remember, these are often Josephus records, Ethiopian and Egypt kind of connected. Remember, there were northern and southern pharaohs ruling at the same time and that type of thing, too.

It says Zerah, the Ethiopian, came out against them with an army of a million men, 300 chariots. He came to Maresha. The Lord struck the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah and the Ethiopians fled. So that word Ethiopian that we see in scripture comes from the word Kush.

Kush is southern Egypt or Sudan. And again, this is kind of you might look at it as anachronisms or just the fact that we see you had a northern and a southern king and that they distinguish them that way.

So anyway, there's no mention or no Kushite that historically speaking, anyway, that could have raised a million man army except for during the 18th dynasty when the capital of it was in southern Egypt at Luxor, which is during this time here when King Asa is ruling.

So makes some sense. And here we see the mummy or statue here of Almanhotep II or possibly Zerah. Now, Thutmose IV left a stela between the paws of the Sphinx, and he basically shows that there was a dream that the Sphinx told him to remove the sand because he was being choked.

And this basically gave him kind of some divine authority as well. So here's the stela that was left there by Thutmose IV, and he is the first one to make the sun disk. And we kind of see the sun disk kind of throughout history in a lot of different ways.

Well, Aten becomes known as kind of this head deity in Egypt. Now, Aten is emaciated when we see him in the mummy, the mummies of him, which may suggest that he had some disease or something. We don't know.

We also have here Almanhotep III following Thutmose IV then. And so just kind of taking you down the line. He was also known as Almanhotep the Magnificent because of his building projects. He was a big builder.

And one of the largest statues in the Cairo Museum shows him with his favorite wife here. And some say that he had his arm around her or I should say her having his arm around him, although there is some question about that today because the statue had been broken up and whatnot.

And so the way it was put together, they think that maybe it was on her on his knee rather than behind him. But who knows? It doesn't really matter. But anyway, there are more statues of this woman here than any other queen outside of Nefertiti.

Now, we'll talk about Nefertiti later, but Almanhotep III was about 10 to 12 years old when he becomes king here. His mother acted as the regent for about six years of the 38 of his reign. And he also is recorded in the Egyptian records as having a thousand wives.

And the reason I bring this up is simply because many people mock at the possibility of Solomon having a thousand wives. And they say that's ridiculous. Well, it isn't ridiculous. In fact, it happened in Egypt as well.

So this is kind of the things that happened with powerful kings. And it isn't just in the Bible that that type of thing is recorded. So here is his mother, a picture of her or a statue of her in Berlin.

And this shows her to be very Ethiopian like. The huge statue of Almanhotep III is over here. Here is his knee kind of coming down. These are his feet. And there is one on both sides at the entrance to one of his temples.

So you can see there's a person standing right here in the corner, if my cursor is showing up for you. So large statues of him just kind of in front of the temple. Now, what he did is he put his mother at his feet.

By these statues, very small, much, much smaller than him. But it seems like she at least had some respect for her, but wasn't going to give her too much credit by making her too large. But anyway, these two huge statues have on them the statue of Hapi, the river god of the Nile that we talked about last time and basically shows bringing the northern and the southern parts, upper and lower Egypt together, that the Nile River did that kind of a unity binding type thing.

So that is on those statues. That's what's basically depicted there. But again, I'm kind of pointing that out more for the sake of this northern and upper Egypt. There was a uniting that there were kings ruling at the same time sometimes.