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sons Kamose and Ahmose ultimately raised an army in Upper Egypt and
rebelled against the Hyksos King Apophis in 1570BCE. In 1567BCE, the
Egyptians expelled the Hyksos from Egypt and established the prosperous
New Kingdom. With the expulsion of the Hyksos, Kamose wrote: 350
Let me understand what this strength of mine is for! (One) prince
is in Avaris, another is in Ethiopia, and (here) I sit associated with an
Asiatic and a Negro! Each man has his slice of this Egypt, dividing up
the land with me... no man can settle down, when despoiled by the taxes of
the Asiatics. I will grapple with him that I may rip open his belly! My
wish is to save Egypt and to smite the Asiatic! I went north because I was
strong (enough) to attack the Asiatics through the command of Ammon,
the just of counsels. My valiant army was in front of me like a blast of fire
... When day broke, I was on him as if it was a falcon. When the time of
breakfast had come, I attacked him. I broke down his walls, I killed his
people, and I made his wife come down to the riverbank. My soldiers
were as lions are, with their spoil, having serfs, cattle, milk, fat and
honey, dividing up their property, their hearts gay.
One of the commanders of Kamose's fleet wrote that after his
majesty had killed the Asiatics he sailed southward to destroy the Nubian
nomads. 351
The Hyksos-Israelites escaped to Palestine. They remained there
from 1567BCE until the Palestine campaign of Tuthmose III in 1480BCE.
There was extensive fragmentation in Palestine during this period: 352
Now at that time, the Asiatics had fallen into disagreement, each
man fighting against his neighbor.
Tuthmose III’s 1480BCE campaign capitalized on this disarray to
push as far north as Naharin on the Upper Euphrates and to the strategic
city of Mari where the Israelite Patriarchs had initially come from. There
the fierce Mitanni Empire of the Hurrians halted them.
Thutmose III's troops then occupied the strategically important
cities of Megiddo and Jerusalem, or Kadesh, in Palestine. A Hurrian-
Semitic vassal of Egypt called Abd-Khiba still ruled Jerusalem eighty
years later in 1400BCE. 353
The dislodged Hyksos re-established in a Syrian town that they
also called Kadesh or Holy City. This was Kadesh on the Orontes River.
Today the Orontes River forms part of the border between Lebanon and
Syria just above Damascus.
In 1291BCE, Ramses II again re-exerted Egyptian sovereignty
over Palestine as Sesôstris I and Thutmose III had done. He pushed up
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