Timeline• 1 Kings 6:1 Temple began to be built 480 years

after the Exodus in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.

• Solomon’s reign began about 970 so the Temple building began about 966.

• 966 + 480 = 1446 B.C. as year of the Exodus. 40 years of wilderness wandering later, the conquest of Canaan was about 1406.

Timeline

• Judges 11:26 Jephthah (ca. 1100 B.C.) claims to be 300 years after the conquest. The also puts the conquest at about 1400 and the Exodus at about 1440.

Timeline

• Exodus 7:7 Moses was 80 years old at the time of the Exodus. Aaron was three years older.

• Moses born ca. 1526 B.C.

Moses and the Pharohs

• Amenhotep 1 1546-1526 • Thutmose 1 1526-1512• Thutmose 2 1512-1504. • Thutmose 3 1504-1450.• Amenhotep 2 1450-1425

God judges the gods

• 1. Water to blood.– Hapi, the god of the Nile – 1 Osirus, whose bloodstream was the Nile

• 2. Frogs– Heket, goddess of childbirth who was represented

as a frog• 3. lice/sand fleas– ?

God judges the gods

• 4. Flies– ?

• 5. Plague on cattle– Hathor, the sky goddess was represented as a cow– Apis, the god of fertility was represented as a bull.

• 6. Boils– ?

God judges the gods

• 7. Hail storms and• 8. Locusts– Seth, the god of winds and storms– Isis, the goddess of life– Min, another fertility god whose festival was at harvest

time.• 9. Darkness– Amon Re, the god of the sun– There were at least three other gods associated with

the sun.

God judges the gods

• 10. Death of the first born.– Osirus, the god of the dead– Pharoh, the god king.