[103] A different Baalzephon from that on the Red Sea; Exod. xiv. 2, 9. [104] Schrader, _loc. cit._ s. 375; Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 5, 46; G. Smith, "Disc." p. 277. [105] 2 Kings xv. 5, 7, 37. [106] Isa. ii. 7. The moral precepts of Isaiah are collected in the text without regard to the chronology. [107] Isa. x. 1, 2. [108] Isa. v. 23. [109] Isa. v. 8. [110] Isa. iii. 14, 15. [111] Isa. v. 11, 12. [112] Isa. v. 18-22. [113] Isa. i. 10-15. [114] Isa. xxix. 13. [115] Isa. i. 16, 17. [116] Isa. v. 4, 5, 3, 14. [117] Isa. xxix. 14. [118] Isa. xxxiii. 14-16; i. 18, 19. [119] Isa. ix. 17-20. [120] Isa. vii. 4, 6, 16. [121] Isa. vii. 20. [122] Isa. viii. 4-8. [123] 2 Kings xv. 29, 30; xvi. 5-10. [124] Frag. 10, in G. Smith, "Disc." p. 282; E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 151. [125] Frag. 12, in G. Smith, p. 224, 225; Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 5, 52; E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 145. [126] Ll. 57-62, in G. Smith, "Disc." p. 262, 263; E. Schrader, _loc. cit._ s. 147. CHAPTER III. THE PHARAOHS OF TANIS, BUBASTIS, AND NAPATA. At the close of the fourteenth century B.C. Ramses III. had secured Egypt against the attacks of the Libyans, Syrians, and Arabians. His successors of the same name remained peacefully within the borders of their land. Neither tradition nor monuments tell us of their campaigns. Two or three sepulchres in the rocks of Biban el Moluk and some inscriptions give us their names, and inform us that these Ramessids built at the temple of Chon at Thebes, that they maintained the dominion of Thebes up the Nile as far as Mt. Barkal down to the year 1100 B.C.[127] Of more importance is the fact that under the successors of Ramses VI., the last rulers of the name of Ramses, who sat on the throne from the year 1200 to 1074 B.C., the high-priests of Thebes obtained a position which formed a strong counterpoise to the power of the kings, and at length threw it into the back-ground, if it did not altogether remove it. In inscriptions in the temple of Chon, Herhor, the high-priest at the time of Ramses XIII., receives the title of prince (_si suten_, king's son) of Cush, a title borne by the viceroys of Napata since Ramses II. They call him "Commander-in-chief of the army in Upper and Lower Egypt;" and finally, "Si-Amun" and "Si-Ra," and with these titles, which were borne by the Pharaohs, Herhor receives also the symbols of the king. It is also thought that the inscriptions speak of tribute of the Retennu, _i.e._ the Syrians, which he received.[128] It may be that Herhor rose to the throne after the death of Ramses XIII., or that he reigned during his lifetime, or that he absolutely deposed him. Pianchi, the son of Herhor, is called in the monuments "High-priest of Ammon, Prophet of Mut, Commander of the cavalry of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt;" but the king, whose officer Pianchi was, is not mentioned. On the other hand, Pinotem, the son of this Pianchi, like