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are incomplete as regards the tally for Jerusalem, the total tribute is clear.
After eliminating the tribute from identified cities, there is little remaining
tribute to associate with Jerusalem. If there was a glorious wealth of gold
shields and other tribute from Solomon’s city, Shoshenq I certainly did
not triumphantly record it.
Using accepted Biblical chronology the fifth year of Rehoboam
would be about 917BCE, about five hundred and sixty years after
Thutmose III's conquest. The Atbash Cipher solution decodes Shishak to
Babel, meaning Babylon (see Appendix 10). 54 The Babylon connection
means the fifth year of Rehoboam could well be another three hundred
and twenty years later, in 597BCE. In this year King Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylon invaded Israel, destroyed the Temple and carried the people into
Exile.
We therefore have a dazzling array of dates some eight hundred
and eighty years apart, from the conquest of Tuthmose III to the time of
King Nebuchadnezzar. There must be another explanation.
While retaining the identity of Shishak, we need to dispose of the
derived Atbash Cipher solution as a date for the destruction of the
Temple. There were two traditional oppressors of the Israelites: Egypt
and Babylon. The archetypal Egyptian King Shishak represented the
kings of both lands. The biblical stories neatly combine the Israelites’
two aggressors Shoshenq I and Nebuchadnezzar into a single archetype
(later Rome was rolled in as well). The similarity of Pharaoh Shoshenq
I’s name to Shishak is a fortuitous device that greatly enhances the power
of the archetype because of its apparent internal consistency.
King Shoshenq I’s Palestine campaign also conveniently aligns
with the break-up of David’s empire. However, the lost empire was not
Israel. It was the Delta of Egypt and all the lands in Tuthmose I’s
kingdom that stretched to the Euphrates. The forlorn Israelites were
anxious to regain their domain:
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a
Branch shall grow out of his roots … And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt,
and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and
from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 55
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup
of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to
drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the
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