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defeated and slew the king of Judah at Megiddo. (2 Kings 23:29,30; 2 Chronicles 35:20-24) Necho
seems to have soon returned to Egypt. Perhaps he was on his way thither when he deposed Jehoahaz.
The army was probably posted at Carchemish, and was there defeated by Nebuchadnezzar in the
fourth year of Necho, B.C. 607, that king not being, as it seems, then at its head. (Jeremiah
46:1,2,6,10) This battle led to the loss of all the Asiatic dominions of Egypt. (2 Kings 24:7)
•Pharaoh-hophra .—The next king of Egypt mentioned in the Bible is Pharaoh-hophra, the second
successor of Necho, from whom he was separated by the six-years reign of Psammetichus II. He
came to the throne about B.C. 589, and ruled nineteen years. Herodotus who calls him Apries,
makes him son of Psammetichus II., whom he calls Psammis, and great-grandson of Psammetichus
I. In the Bible it is related that Zedekiah, the last king of Judah was aided by a Pharaoh against
Nebuchadnezzar, in fulfillment of it treaty, and that an army came out of Egypt, so that the
Chaldeans were obliged to raise the siege of Jerusalem. The city was first besieged in the ninth
year of Zedekiah B.C. 590, and was captured in his eleventh year, B.C. 588. It was evidently
continuously invested for a length of time before was taken, so that it is most probable that
Pharaoh’s expedition took place during 590 or 589. The Egyptian army returned without effecting
its purpose. (Jeremiah 27:5-8; Ezekiel 17:11-18) comp. 2Kin 25:1-4 No subsequent Pharaoh is
mentioned in Scripture, but there are predictions doubtless referring to the misfortunes of later
princes until the second Persian conquest, when the prophecy, “There shall be no more a prince
of the land of Egypt,” (Ezekiel 30:13) was fulfilled. (In the summer of 1881 a large number of the
mummies of the Pharaohs were found in a tomb near Thebes—among them Raskenen, of the
seventeenth dynasty, Ahmes I., founder of the eighteenth dynasty, Thothmes I,II, and III., and
Rameses I. It was first thought that Rameses II, of the nineteenth dynasty, was there, But this was
found to be a mistake. A group of coffins belonging to the twenty-first dynasty has been found,
and it is probable that we will learn not a little about the early Pharaohs, especially from the
inscriptions on their shrouds.—ED.)
Pharaoh, The Wife Of
The wife of one Pharaoh, the king who received Hadad the Edomite, is mentioned in Scripture.
She is called “queen,” and her name, Tahpenes, is given. [Tahpenes; Pharaoh, 6]
Pharaohs Daughter
Three Egyptian princesses, daughters of Pharaohs, are mentioned in the Bible:—
•The preserver of Moses, daughter of the Pharaoh who first oppressed the Israelites. (Exodus 2:6-10)
Osborn thinks her name was Thouoris, daughter of Rameses II, others that her name was Merrhis.
(B.C. 1531.)
•Bithiah wife of Mered, an Israelite. daughter of a Pharaoh of an uncertain age, probably of about
the time of the exodus. (1 Chronicles 4:18) [Pharaoh, No. 5]
•A wife of Solomon. (1 Kings 3:1; 7:8; 8:24) [Pharaoh, 7] (B.C.1000.)
Phares, Pharez Or Perez
The son of Judah. (Matthew 1:3; Luke 3:33)
Pharez
(Perez, (1 Chronicles 27:3) Phares, (Matthew 1:3; Luke 3:33) 1 Esd. 5:6), twin son, with Zarah
or Zerah, of Judah and Tamer his daughter-in-law. (B.C. 1730.) The circumstances of his birth are
detailed in Gen. 38. Pharez occupied the rank of Judah’s second son, and from two of his sons
sprang two new chief houses, those of the Hezronites and Hamulites. From Hezron’s second son
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