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EGYPT AND THE BIBLE
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Table of the Egyptian Dynasties—continued.
| Dynasty. | Capital. | Modern Name. | Approximate Date, according to ariette. |
Approximate Date, according to Wiedemann. | ||
| The Middle Empire. | ||||||
| XII. | Diospolitan | Thebes | Luxor, &c. | 2851 | 3450 | |
| XIII. | Diospolitan | Thebes | Luxor &c., | . . . | 3250 | |
| XIV. | Xoite | Xois | Sakha | 2398 | 2800 | |
| The Shepherd Kings. | ||||||
| XV. | Hyksos | Tanis (Zoan) | San | 2214 | 2325 | |
| XVI. | Hyksos | Tanis | San | . . . | 2050 | |
| Diospolitan | Thebes | Luxor, &c. | . . . | . . . | ||
| XVII. | Hyksos | Tanis | San | . . . | 1800 | |
| Diospolitan | Thebes | Luxor, &c. | . . . | . . . | ||
| The New Empire. | ||||||
| XVIII. | Diospolitan | Thebes | Luxor, &c. | 1700 | 1750 | |
| XIX. | Diospolitan | Thebes | Luxor, &c. | 1400 | 1490 | |
| XX. | Diospolitan | Thebes | Luxor, &c. | 1200 | 1280 | |
| XXI. | Tanite | Tanis | San | 1100 | 1100 | |
| XXII. | Bubastite | Bubastis | Tel Bast | 960 | 975 | |
| XXIII. | Tanite | Tanis | San | 766 | 810 | |
| XXIV. | Saite | Sais | Sa el-Hagar | 753 | 720 | |
| XXV. | Ethiopian | Napata | Mount Barkal | 700 | 715 | |
| XXVI. | Sait | Sais | Sa el-Hagar | 666 | 664 | |
| XXVII. | Persian | Persepolis | . . . | 527 | 525 | |
| XXVIII. | Saite | Sais | Sa el-Hagar | . . . | 415 | |
| XXIX. | Mendesian | Mendes | Eshmun er-Român | 399 | 408 | |
| XXX. | Sebennyte | Sebennytos | Semenhûd | 378 | 387 | |
In the time of Moses the Egyptian power had already passed its zenith and begun to decay. There had been an Old Empire, with the City of This for its first capital and Menes as its first king. Dynasty had succeeded dynasty, during perhaps two thousand years, and the capital had been changed several times, when the Middle Empire came in, and the kings ruled from Thebes and afterwards from Xois. There had now been fourteen
