herds; whose strong hold was Auaris on the eastern bank of the Nile:
whither, accordingly, Abimelech returns at the close of the conference.
Gen. xxi. 22-34.

1082 1856 Isaac marries Rebekah-About this time, African Ethiopia or Cusha-
dwip without is planted by a colony of the Shepherd-kings from Egypt.
These colonists are the blameless Ethiopians of Homer: and, from the
circumstance of the hero-gods being said to visit them, we may infer,
that they were chiefly of the sacerdotal caste; who, wearied with the
turbulent scenes exhibited in lower Egypt, retired into the Thebais and
thence into Abyssinia.

1102 1836 Jacob and Esau born.

1117 1821 Abraham dies, 477 years after the death of Peleg.

1179 1759 Jacob flees to Haran, through fear of his brother Esau.

1196 1742 Expulsion of the first dynasty of the Shepherd-kings of Egypt by the native Mizraim. They retire in Palestine after reigning in Egypt 260

years.

1199 1739 Jacob returns with his family into the land of Canaan.

1211 1727 Joseph is sold into Egypt, then 17 years old and upwards. Gen.

1224 17 14 Joseph stands before Pharaoh, than 30 years old and upwards. Gen.
xli. 46-Commencement of the 7 years of plenty.

1231 1707 Commencement of the 7 years of famine.
1232 1706 Jacob and his family descend into Egypt, during the second year of
famine, when as yet 5 full years remain to be completed. Gen. xlv. 6—
They are placed in Goshen or Auaris, now standing vacant by the expul-
sion of the Shepherd-kings.

1237 1701 The last year of famine.

1249 1689 Jacob dies, having resided 17 years in Egypt, at the age of 147 years.
Gen. xlvii. 28.

1304 1634 Joseph dies, at the age of 110 years. Gen. 1. 22.
1941 1597 The Shepherd-kings return from Palestine into Egypt, and found a
second pastoral dynasty-The new king or regal sovereignty rises up,
that knew not Joseph; when all the brethren of that patriarch, and all
the men of his generation were dead. Exod. i. 6, 8-The servitude of
Israel and (according to Herodotus and Manetho) of the native Mizraim
commences, in the course of which the pyramids are built-The king of
the native Mizraim, with the priests, the sacred animals, and a consider-
able body of his subjects, takes refuge among the friendly Cuthic Shep-
herds of African Ethiopia.

1346 1592

Amram marries Jochebed.

1347 1591 Miriam born.

1364 1574 Aaron born, previous to the edict relative to the destruction of the Israelitish male children.

1366 1572 Pharaoh decrees, that all the new-born male children of the Israelites shall be cast into the river.

1367 1571 Moses born, exposed in an ark, watched by his sister then a young woman, and preserved by Pharaoh's daughter.

1447 1491 Moses and Aaron stand before Pharaoh; the one being then 80, and the other 83, years of age. Exod. vii. 7-Plagues of Egypt-Exodus of Israel-Pharaoh and the flower of his pastoral chivalry are drowned in the Red sea-The final expulsion of the Shepherds by the native Mizraim commences, at the close of 511 years from their original invasion of Egypt: their first dynasty having reigned 260 years; their second dynasty, according to Herodotus and Eusebius verified by Scripture, having reigned 106 years; and a period of 145 years having elapsed between their first expulsion and their return, during the greatest part of which the captive or leprous or Israelitish Shepherds occupy the land of Goshen or Auaris-A large body of the Shepherd-kings march back into the southern parts of the land of Canaan: where, joining their brethren the Anakim and other tribes of the Indo-Scythic stock, they push northward along the sea-coast; and, under the name of Philistim or Palistim or Shepherds, are for many years formidable to the commonwealth of Israel-During the next 89 years, the pastoral kings are gradually expelled by the Mizraim; first one tribe being driven out, and then another. They retire to Phenicia, Greece, Colchis, the mouths of the river Tanais, Mauritania, and the northern sea-coast of Africa. 1448 1490 The Israelites are terrified by the report of the spies, who give a formidable account of the gigantic stature of the Cuthic Anakim now rendered yet more powerful by the accession of the Shepherds or Philistim from Egypt.

1487 1451 The Israelites enter the land of Canaan, 40 years after the Exodus. 1525 1413 Cushan-Rishathaim, king of the Mesopotamian Aram and a potent vassal of the great Iranian empire, reduces Israel to subjection; in pursuance of the policy, which had been adopted so early as the days of Chedorlaomer.

1536 1402 The expulsion of the Shepherd-kings from Egypt is completed by the retiring of the Danai into Greece, who bring with them the worship of the ship Argo or Argha.

1938 1000 Solomon extends his dominions from the frontiers of Egypt to the great river Euphrates, agreeably to the promise of God made to Abraham. Gen. xv. 18. 1 Kings iv. 1 Kings iv. 21-This was effected, in the course of divine providence, by the gradual decay of the CuthicoAssyrian empire of Iran now hastening to its dissolution. The Euphrates therefore, at the present period, was the boundary of the two empires of Israel and Iran.

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884 About this time, Hazael becomes king of the maritime Aram, having been previously anointed to the office by Elijah during the life-time of his master and predecessor Benhadad. 1 Kings xix. 15. This action of the prophet shews, that Aram was now an independent kingdom, its sovereign no longer receiving his investiture from the head of the declining empire of Aram.

830 Dissolution of the Cuthico-Assyrian empire 1495 years after its commencement at Babel-Rise of the Assyrian kingdom; and commence4 Q

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has confounded with the second Ninus.

827 First Median revolt, and commencement of the anarchical interregnum.
826 Admonitory denunciation of Jonah to the revolutionized Ninevites
under the third Ninus, shortly after the dissolution of the Cuthico-Assy-
rian empire.

821

Commencement of the independent kingdom of Media under the dynasty
of the Arbacidæ, which led the way to the general revolt.

811 Commencement of the independent kingdom of Persia under the Pish-
dadian dynasty, on the extinction of the great Mahabadian or Cuthico-
Assyrian dynasty which had previously ruled over all Iran. This perhaps
ought to be placed a few years higher, yet so as to succeed the Median
revolt in A. A. C. 827.

747 Era of Nabonassar-Division of the Assyrian kingdom into the two
kingdoms of Assyria and Babylon, the latter however apparently depen-
dent upon the former.

726 Accession of Shalmaneser-About this time, Media, either wholly or
partially, is reduced under the Assyrian yoke: for, almost immediately
afterwards, A. A. C. 721 or 719, Shalmaneser places the captive Israel-
ites in the cities of the Medes, as if to supply the depopulation or emi-
gration produced by his conquest of the country. 2 Kings xvii. 9.
711 Sennacherib's miraculous overthrow, and subsequent assassination.
710 Accession of Esar-Haddon-Second Median revolt, which is the natural
consequence of Sennacherib's disaster.

2368 570 Nebuchadnezzar becomes the second founder of Babylon.

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Texts of Scripture cited or illustrated in the Course of this Work.