Bible -- Antiquities; Bible. Old Testament -- Evidences, authority, etc.
Looking further in this case, exhibit number 392 is a silver ring
inscribed with the titles of an official who held many important
positions under two monarchs. He was president of the granaries, also a
prophet of the fourth order, served as a scribe and at one time was
libationer in the reigns of Psammetichus and Shishak.
The most important of all the records of Shishak, of course, is the
voluminous account that he caused to be engraved at the Temple of
Karnak. A detail is added in Shishak’s record that is not contained in
the Scriptures. According to the conqueror, to strengthen the ties of
vassalage, he gave Jeroboam one of his daughters in marriage. This
complete record of Shishak’s we photographed, studied carefully, and
found eminently satisfactory, with the single exception that the king of
Judah is not named by name in Shishak’s account of this conquest. But he
does tell of the capture of Judah, the rape of Jerusalem, and gives a
categorical list of cities and villages overthrown. He specifically
mentions the bucklers and shields of gold that he took from the temple.
In a word, this science of archeology, upon the authority of men long
dead, but who have since been raised to testify, stamps an emphatic O.
K. upon this section of the Sacred Record.[1]
The next king who parades these pages under the designation of his
proper name is the Pharaoh Zera, who has also been identified with
Osarkon. Shishak’s first-born son, named both Usarkon and Osarkon the
First, succeeded his father to the throne as the last of the Tanite
kings of the twenty-first dynasty. This son, in turn, was called Shishak
and became the high priest of Amon. Osarkon the First was succeeded by
Takeloth the First, who, in turn, was followed by Osarkon the Second.
Since both of these Osarkons figure in the Scriptural account, we
briefly cover their record as it occurs in antiquity.
Being emperor of Ethiopia, as well as of Egypt, the first Osarkon, or
Zera, had a vast horde of Ethiopian allies who fought with him in his
important conquests. This entire line was of Libyan extraction. A
portion of Africa that is now temporarily possessed by the crown of
Italy seems to have given rise to this family of conquering rulers.
Undoubtedly the designation “Ethiopian” was suggested by this African
ancestry.
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