der one of these princes, called Pharaoh in Scripture,(411) (a
name common to all the kings of Egypt,) Abraham arrived there with his
wife Sarah, who was exposed to great hazard, on account of her exquisite
beauty, which reaching the prince's ear, she was by him taken from
Abraham, upon the supposition that she was not his wife, but only his
sister.

(M67) THETHMOSIS, or Amosis, having expelled the Shepherd-kings, reigned
in Lower Egypt.

(M68) Long after his reign, Joseph was brought a slave into Egypt, by some
Ishmaelitish merchants; sold to Potiphar; and, by a series of wonderful
events, enjoyed the supreme authority, by his being raised to the chief
employment of the kingdom. I shall pass over his history, as it is so
universally known. But I must take notice of a remark of Justin, (the
epitomizer of Trogus Pompeius,(412) an excellent historian of the Augustan
age,) _viz._ that Joseph, the youngest of Jacob's children, whom his
brethren, through envy, had sold to foreign merchants, being endowed from
heaven(413) with the interpretation of dreams, and a knowledge of
futurity, preserved, by his uncommon prudence, Egypt from the famine with
which it was menaced, and was extremely caressed by the king.

(M69) Jacob also went into Egypt with his whole family, which met with the
kindest treatment from the Egyptians, whilst Joseph's important services
were fresh in their memories. But after his death, say the
Scriptures,(414) "there arose up a new king, which knew not Joseph."

(M70) RAMESES-MIAMUN, according to archbishop Usher, was the name of this
king, who is called Pharaoh in Scripture. He reigned sixty-six years, and
oppressed the Israelites in a most grievous manner. "He set over them
task-masters, to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for
Pharaoh treasure-cities,(415) Pithom and Raamses--and the Egyptians made
the children of Israel to serve with rigour, and they made their lives
bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of
service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve, was
with rigour."(416) This king had two sons, Amenophis and Busiris.

(M71) AMENOPHIS, the eldest, succeeded him. He was the Pharaoh, under
whose reign the Israelites departed out of Egypt, and was drowned in
passing the Red-Sea.

(M72) Father Tournemine makes Sesostris, of whom we shall speak
immediately, the Pharaoh who raised the persecution against the
Israelites, and oppressed