_Saul_ was made King [194], that he might rescue _Israel_ out of the hand of the _Philistims_, who opressed them; and in the second year of his Reign, the _Philistims_ brought into the field against him _thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore for multitude_: the _Canaanites_ had their horses from _Egypt_; and yet in the days of _Moses_ all the chariots of _Egypt_, with which _Pharaoh_ pursued _Israel_ were but six hundred, _Exod._ xiv. 7. From the great army of the _Philistims_ against _Saul_, and the great number of their horses, I seem to gather that the Shepherds had newly relinquished _Egypt_; and joyned them: the Shepherds might be beaten and driven out of the greatest part of _Egypt_, and shut up in _Abaris_ by _Misphragmuthosis_ in the latter end of the days of _Eli_; and some of them fly to the _Philistims_, and strengthen them against _Israel_, in the last year of _Eli_; and from the _Philistims_ some of the Shepherds might go to _Zidon_, and from _Zidon_, by sea to _Asia minor_ and _Greece_: and afterwards, in the beginning of the Reign of _Saul_, the Shepherds who still remained in _Egypt_ might be forced by _Tethmosis_ or _Amosis_ the son of _Misphragmuthosis_, to leave _Abaris_, and retire in very great numbers to the _Philistims_; and upon these occasions several of them, as _Pelasgus_, _Inachus_, _Lelex_, _Cecrops_, and _Abas_, might come with their people by sea from _Egypt_ to _Zidon_ and _Cyprus_, and thence to _Asia minor_ and _Greece_, in the days of _Eli_, _Samuel_ and _Saul_, and thereby begin to open a commerce by sea between _Zidon_ and _Greece_, before the revolt of _Edom_ from _Judæa_, and the final coming of the _Phœnicians_ from the _Red Sea_. _Pelasgus_ Reigned in _Arcadia_, and was the father of _Lycaon_, according to _Pherecydes Atheniensis_, and _Lycaon_ died just before the flood of _Deucalion_; and therefore his father _Pelasgus_ might come into _Greece_ about two Generations before _Cadmus_, or in the latter end of the days of _Eli_: _Lycaon_ sacrificed children, and therefore his father might come with his people from the Shepherds in _Egypt_, and perhaps from the regions of _Heliopolis_, where they sacrificed men, 'till _Amosis_ abolished that custom. _Misphragmuthosis_ the father of _Amosis_, drove the Shepherds out of a great part of _Egypt_, and shut the remainder up in _Abaris_: and then great numbers might escape to _Greece_; some from the regions of _Heliopolis_ under _Pelasgus_, and others from _Memphis_ and other places, under other Captains: and hence it might come to pass that the _Pelasgians_ were at the first very numerous in _Greece_, and spake a different language from the _Greek_, and were the ringleaders in bringing into _Greece_ the worship of the dead.