Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

  by   Damien F. Mackey     “In 701, when Sennacherib had ravaged the whole land and had Jerusalem under blockade (ch. 1:4-9), if words mean anything (“Why be beaten any more, [why] continue rebellion?” v. 5), [Isaiah] counseled surrender; and ch. 22:1-14 ... suggests that nothing in the course of these events had caused him to alter his evaluation of the national character and policy. It is not easy to believe that in this very same year he also counseled defiance and promised deliverance”.     J. Bright, A History of Israel         In Ch. IX of The Sabbath and Jubilee Cycle, “The Identity of Tirhakah”, we read of this bifurcation of pharaoh Tirhakah: http://www.yahweh.org/publications/sjc/sj09Chap.pdf   The Tirhakah of Scriptures was not Khu-Re´ Nefertem Tirhakah of Dynasty XXV of Egypt. It is true that both were Ethiopians, and that the Ethiopians controlled Egypt during the latter half of...

  by   Damien F. Mackey         “Traces of a connection between the rulers at the end of the 18th Dynasty and Horemheb have not been found and ... Velikovsky gives Horemheb a different place in history”.   Henk Spaan         Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky had, partly based on an inscription pairing Tirhakah together with Horemheb, shifted the enigmatic Horemheb downwards from his conventional c. 1300 BC location to the C8th-C7th’s BC era of Tirkahah and the neo-Assyrian potentate, Sennacherib. We know from the Scriptures that at least Tirkahah and Sennacherib were contemporaries. E.g. Isaiah 37:9: “ Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Ethiopia [Cush], was marching out to fight against him”. I had briefly touched upon this historical re-location of Horemheb in my university thesis:   A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah of Judah and its Background   ...