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• Jeremiah 44

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 44 is the chapter in which Jeremiah rebukes the people of Judah who had gone down to Egypt for burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pronounces judgment on those who refuse to listen.

• Tahpenes

  [People]

  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.

• Genubath

  [People]

  Genubath was the son of Hadad, a member of the Edomite royal house, and the sister of Tahpenes, queen of Egypt. He is mentioned only once, in 1 Kings 11:20, which records that he was raised in Pharaoh's household among Pharaoh's sons.

• Ramesses II

  [People]

  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.

• Egypt

  [Bible]

  Egypt is the ancient nation in the Nile River valley of northeastern Africa. It is the setting of the Joseph narrative and the Exodus, and in Scripture it serves as a place symbolizing both bondage and deliverance.

• Flight into Egypt

  [Bible]

  The Flight into Egypt is the event in which Joseph, instructed in a dream after Herod the Great sought to kill the infant Jesus, took Mary and the child and fled to Egypt. After Herod's death the family returned and settled in Nazareth. The account appears only in Matthew 2.

• Anthony of Egypt

  [People]

  Anthony of Egypt (c. 251–356) was an early church hermit who lived a solitary monastic life in the Egyptian desert. He is often called the "Father of Monasticism."

• Brook of Egypt

  [Bible]

  The Brook of Egypt is a seasonal stream (wadi) named in the Old Testament as the southwestern boundary of the land of Canaan. It is commonly identified with Wadi el-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula, though scholars differ on its exact location.

• Migdol

  [Bible]

  Migdol is an Egyptian place-name derived from the Hebrew word for "tower" or "fortress." It appears as a site near Israel's encampment before the crossing of the Red Sea during the Exodus, and in Jeremiah and Ezekiel it is used as a place-name marking the northern extremity of Egypt.

• Ten Plagues

  [Bible]

  The Ten Plagues are the ten judgments that God brought upon Egypt through Moses and Aaron, as recorded in Exodus 7–12. After the final plague, the death of the firstborn, and the institution of the Passover, Israel departs from Egypt.

• Shishak

  [People]

  Shishak was a king of Egypt in the time of Solomon and Rehoboam. He gave refuge to Jeroboam when Jeroboam fled from Solomon, and in the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign he invaded Judah and carried off the treasures of the temple and the royal palace.

• Alexandria

  [Bible]

  Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt. It is mentioned four times in the Bible, all in the Book of Acts. It was the hometown of Apollos and, according to tradition, the place where the Septuagint was translated.

• Pharaoh

  [People]

  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.

• The Exodus

  [Bible]

  The Exodus is the event in which the people of Israel, led by Moses, escaped slavery in Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, and journeyed to Mount Sinai. It is regarded as the defining example of God's salvation in the Old Testament.

• Shihor

  [Bible]

  Shihor is the name of an Egyptian watercourse mentioned four times in the Old Testament. It refers to the Nile or one of its branches and also appears in descriptions of the southern boundary of the land of Israel.

• Pithom

  [Bible]

  Pithom is an Egyptian city mentioned alongside Raamses in Exodus 1:11 as one of the treasure cities that the children of Israel built for Pharaoh under forced labor.

• Seti I

  [People]

  Seti I was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, reigning in the thirteenth century BC. He was the father of Ramesses II. His name appears in discussions about the identity of the "Pharaoh" in the Book of Exodus.

• Ptolemaic Dynasty

  [History]

  The Ptolemaic dynasty was a Greek dynasty (c. 305–30 BC) founded in Egypt by Ptolemy I, one of Alexander the Great's generals, after Alexander's death. It ruled Judea for a time and is known as the setting for the translation of the Septuagint.

• Isaiah 19

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 19 is the part of the Book of Isaiah's oracles against the nations that concerns Egypt. After declaring that Egypt will collapse through civil strife and the drying up of the Nile, it looks ahead to a day when Egypt and Assyria will worship the LORD together with Israel and be blessed.

• Joseph (Son of Jacob)

  [People]

  Joseph is a figure in the Book of Genesis, the son of Jacob and Rachel. Sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, he rose to become the country's chief administrator and saved his family during a famine. He is distinct from Joseph of Nazareth, the legal father of Jesus.