Egypt, Take 2 – Part 5 “Moses and the Egyptians”

While we were on our trip, we asked our guides a few times if they could tell us how Moses’ life intertwined with the history and places that we were visiting. Unfortunately, we were very disappointed in their responses as they would just say that no one knows. Maybe because they are Muslim they never studied it?

So, after our trip I wanted to see what I could find and see if we were anywhere Moses might have been. Below is a summary of what I found from a couple of websites.

Date	Egypt’s Pharaohs	Moses’ Life
1533 BC	Amoses (father of Tutmoses I)	Aaron, Moses’ brother is born
1532 BC	Tutmoses I comes into rule of Egypt
1530 BC	Tutmoses decrees that all sons born to the Israelites be thrown into the river (Exodus 1:22) Hatshepsut (daughter of Tutmoses) likely was the princess who found Moses in a basket on the Nile (Exodus 2:5-10)	Moses is born Moses’ mother saves him by putting him in a basket on the Nile (Exodus 2:1-4)
1508 BC	Tutmoses I dies and Tutmoses II (Hatshepsut’s husband) reigns
1504 BC	Tutmoses II dies Hatshepsut reigns
1490 BC		Moses smites the Egyptian (Exodus 2:11-14 & Acts 7:23-24) Moses flees Egypt to Midan (Exodus 2:15-22)
1488 BC	6 years before Hatshepsut dies all official records of her are erased by Tutmoses III (this could be a result of Hatshepsut converting to Judaism and/or as our guide said just because Tutmoses was angry that she stole his rule)
1482 BC	Hatshepsut dies Tutmoses III (Tutmoses II’s illegitimate son and childhood rival of Moses) reigns and is very cruel towards the Israelites (Exodus 2:23-25) Amenhotep II (Tutmoses III’s son) co-reigns	God reveals himself to Moses as the flaming bush (Exodus 3 & 4 and Acts 7:30) Moses returns to Egypt (Exodus 5)
1482 to 1450 BC	Amenhotep II leaves Egypt to fight the Syrians	The Plagues (Exodus 7-11)
1450 BC	Tutmoses III follows the Hebrews into the parted Red Sea and dies in the process (see interesting historical notes below) Amenhotep II returns to Egypt to find his father (Tutmoses III) and his first-born son dead1	The Exodus (Exodus 12) Moses and Israel wander in the wilderness for 40yrs (Num 32:13)
1410 BC		Moses dies at age 120 (Deut 34:7)
1400 BC	Tutmoses IV begins rule over Egypt2

1. According to the Egyptologist James Breasted, this translates to March 17, 1450 BC. A mummy of Tutmoses III in the Cairo museum was analyzed by two Egyptologists, Harris and Weeks, in 1973 and found to be a mummy of a young man, whereas Tutmoses III must have been at least 80.
2. The next pharaoh to rule after Amenhotep II died was Tutmoses IV, who was the second born son of Amenhotep II. According to succession rights, the first-born should have become pharaoh, but he died. To explain this apparent anomaly, there is an inscription on the Sphinx telling the story of how the second-born son became pharaoh in the place of the first-born. Supposedly, Tutmoses IV was resting between the legs of the Sphinx when he heard a voice telling him to clear the sand from between the legs, and the Sphinx would see to it that he, rather than the first-born, would be the next pharaoh. An unlikely story, and another demonstration of attempts to cloud the issue, so that the embarrassment of the Plagues should not be made public to the descendants.

Some say this is a statue of Hatshepsut and baby Moses

This may be an Egyptian Statue of Moses... notice the Semitic nose