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• Pharaoh Necho

  Pharaoh Necho was a king of Egypt who exerted pressure on Judah in the late seventh century BC. He killed King Josiah of Judah at Megiddo, replaced Judah's king with one of his own choosing, and was defeated by Babylon at Carchemish.

• Riblah

  Riblah was a town in the land of Hamath in Syria. The kings of Egypt and Babylon used it as a military base, and the Bible records it as the place where Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, interrogated and punished Zedekiah, king of Judah.

• Necho

  Necho was a king (pharaoh) of Egypt in the late seventh century BC. After King Josiah of Judah died at Megiddo in an encounter with him, Necho replaced the king of Judah. He was later defeated by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon at the Battle of Carchemish.

• Pharaoh

  Pharaoh is a title for the kings of ancient Egypt. Several pharaohs appear in the Bible, the best known being the king in Exodus who refused to let Israel go and suffered the ten plagues.

• Pharaoh's Daughter

  Pharaoh's daughter is the Egyptian princess in Exodus 2 who drew the infant Moses out from among the reeds of the Nile and raised him as her own son. Scripture does not give her name.

• Pharaoh Hophra

  Pharaoh Hophra was a king of Egypt during the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He is named only once in the Bible, in Jeremiah 44:30, and is known as the Egyptian king on whom Judah relied in its resistance to Babylon.

• Chief Baker

  The chief baker was an official of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appears in Genesis 40. While in prison he had a dream, and three days later he was executed, just as Joseph had interpreted it. His name is not given in the Bible.

• Tahpenes

  Tahpenes was the queen of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, around the time of David and Solomon. She is mentioned twice in 1 Kings 11 as the sister-in-law of Hadad the Edomite.

• Seti I

  Seti I was the second pharaoh (the title of the kings of ancient Egypt) of the Nineteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt in the thirteenth century BC. He was the father of Ramesses II, and his name comes up in discussions of the identity of the "Pharaoh" mentioned in the Book of Exodus.

• Hardening of the Heart

  Hardening of the heart is a biblical term for the condition of a heart that has grown hard and refuses to receive God's word and warnings. It is best known from the account in Exodus of the hardening of Pharaoh's heart.

• Bithiah

  Bithiah is a woman mentioned once, as "the daughter of Pharaoh," in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4. She was the wife of Mered. Jewish tradition sometimes identifies her with the daughter of Pharaoh who rescued the infant Moses.

• Hardness of Heart

  Hardness of heart is a biblical expression for a state in which the heart has become hardened and obstinate against the word and will of God. It appears most prominently in the account of Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus.

• Ramesses II

  Ramesses II was a pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt who reigned for more than sixty years in the thirteenth century BC. Because he shares his name with Raamses, the store city mentioned in Exodus, he is frequently discussed in debates over the identity of the pharaoh of the Exodus.

• Ezekiel 31

  Ezekiel 31 is a prophecy addressed to Pharaoh, king of Egypt. It declares that just as Assyria, once as lofty as a cedar of Lebanon, was cut down for its pride and brought down to Sheol (the realm of the dead), so Pharaoh will share the same fate.

• Genesis 41

  Genesis 41 is the chapter of Genesis in which Joseph interprets Pharaoh's two dreams as seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine, becomes ruler over Egypt, and stores up grain.

• Exodus 5

  Exodus 5 recounts how Moses and Aaron first go before Pharaoh to deliver the LORD's word, "Let my people go," only to be refused, and how the forced labor of the Israelites is made even heavier as a result.

• Genesis 47

  Genesis 47 is the chapter in which Joseph presents his father and brothers to Pharaoh and settles them in the land of Goshen. During the famine he buys up, in turn, the Egyptians' money, livestock, and land on Pharaoh's behalf, and the aged Jacob makes Joseph swear to bury him in Canaan.

• Asenath

  Asenath was an Egyptian woman in Genesis, the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On. Pharaoh gave her to Joseph as his wife, and she became the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim.

• Potiphar

  Potiphar is an Egyptian who appears in the Book of Genesis. An officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, he bought Joseph, who had been sold into Egypt by his brothers, and placed him in charge of his household. After hearing his wife's false accusation, he had Joseph put in prison.

• Exodus 7

  Exodus 7 is the chapter in which Moses and Aaron perform the sign of turning a rod into a serpent before Pharaoh and in which the first plague occurs, as the waters of the Nile ("the river") are turned to blood.