From the Death of David to the Death of Ahab - Flavius Josephus

2. Now Solomon the king was at this time engaged in building these
cities. But if any inquire why all the kings of Egypt from Menes, who built
Memphis, and was many years earlier than our forefather Abraham, until
Solomon, where the interval was more than one thousand three hundred
years, were called Pharaohs, and took it from one Pharaoh that lived after the
kings of that interval, I think it necessary to inform them of it, and this in
order to cure their ignorance, and to make the occasion of that name
manifest. Pharaoh, in the Egyptian tongue, signifies a king (1) but I suppose
they made use of other names from their childhood; but when they were
made kings, they changed them into the name which in their own tongue
denoted their authority; for thus it was also that the kings of Alexandria, who
were called formerly by other names, when they took the kingdom, were
named Ptolemies, from their first king. The Roman emperors also were from
their nativity called by other names, but are styled Caesars, their empire and
their dignity imposing that name upon them, and not suffering them to
continue in those names which their fathers gave them. I suppose also that
Herodotus of Halicarnassus, when he said there were three hundred and
thirty kings of Egypt after Menes, who built Memphis, did therefore not tell
us their names, because they were in common called Pharaohs; for when
after their death there was a queen reigned, he calls her by her name Nicaule,
as thereby declaring, that while the kings were of the male line, and so
admitted of the same nature, while a woman did not admit the same, he did
therefore set down that her name, which she could not naturally have. As for
myself, I have discovered from our own books, that after Pharaoh, the fatherin-law
of Solomon, no other king of Egypt did any longer use that name; and
that it was after that time when the forenamed queen of Egypt and Ethiopia
came to Solomon, concerning whom we shall inform the reader presently;
but I have now made mention of these things, that I may prove that our
books and those of the Egyptians agree together in many things.
3. But king Solomon subdued to himself the remnant of the Canaanites
that had not before submitted to him; those I mean that dwelt in Mount
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