of the gods, to oppress and afflict
Egypt during the space of one hundred and fifty years, as a punishment for
its crimes; and that his reign, which was to have been like those of the
preceding monarchs, of fifty years' continuance, was shortened on account
of his too great lenity. Mycerinus likewise built a pyramid, but much
inferior in dimensions to that of his father.

ASYCHIS.(434) He enacted the law relating to loans, which forbade a son to
borrow money, without giving the dead body of his father by way of
security for it. The law added, that in case the son took no care to
redeem his father's body by restoring the loan, both himself and his
children should be deprived for ever of the rights of sepulture.

He valued himself for having surpassed all his predecessors, by the
building a pyramid of brick, more magnificent, if this king was to be
credited, than any hitherto seen. The following inscription, by its
founder's order, was engraved upon it. COMPARE ME NOT WITH PYRAMIDS BUILT
OF STONE; WHICH I AS MUCH EXCEL AS JUPITER DOES ALL THE OTHER GODS.(435)

If we suppose the six preceding reigns (the exact duration of some of
which is not fixed by Herodotus) to comprise one hundred and seventy
years, there will remain an interval of near three hundred years, to the
reign of Sabachus the Ethiopian. In this interval, I place a few
circumstances related in Holy Scripture.

(M80) PHARAOH, king of Egypt, gave his daughter in marriage to Solomon
king of Israel; who received her in that part of Jerusalem called the city
of David, till he had built her a palace.(436)

SESACH or Shishak, otherwise called Sesonchis. (M81) It was to him that
Jeroboam fled, to avoid the wrath of Solomon, who intended to kill
him.(437) He abode in Egypt till Solomon's death, and then returned to
Jerusalem, when, putting himself at the head of the rebels, he won from
Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, ten tribes, over whom he declared himself
king.

(M82) This Sesach, in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, marched
against Jerusalem, because the Jews had transgressed against the Lord. He
came with twelve hundred chariots of war, and sixty thousand horse.(438)
He had brought numberless multitudes of people, who were all Libyans,(439)
Troglodytes, and Ethiopians. He made himself master of all the strongest
cities of Judah, and advanced as far as Jerusalem. Then the king, and the
princes of Israel, having humbled themselves, and implored the protec