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88 The Amalekites of the Bible!

He cast on them the fierce ness of His an ger, wrath, in dig na tion, and trou ble by send ing an
INVASION OF KING-SHEPHERDS among them.

An old He brew leg end sheds light on this sub ject: “Amalek fetched FROM EGYPT the ta -
ble of de scent of the Jews [Is ra el ites] ...these lists lay in the Egyp tian ar chives. Amalek ap peared
be fore the Jew ish [Is ra el ite] camp, and call ing the peo ple by name, he in vited them to leave the
camp and come out to him.” (Leg ends, III, by Ginzberg. P.56.)

Ac cord ing to Velikovsky: “This leg end im plies knowl edge on the part of the Is ra el ites of
the fact that the AMALEKITES CAME TO EGYPT AND BECAME THE RULERS OF THE
LAND.” How else would they come into pos ses sion of the cen sus lists in the Egyp tian ar chives?

In the Papyrus Ipuwer we find:

PAPYRUS 6:7: For sooth, pub lic of fices are opened and the cen sus-lists are taken away. Serfs be -
come lords of serfs [?].

It seems quite ap par ent that when the Amalekites con quered Egypt, they re garded them -
selves as the in her i tors of the for mer Egyp tian Em pire -- in clud ing all its col o nies; and when they
came into con flict with the na tion of Is rael in fol low ing cen tu ries, they may have ar gued that the Is -
ra el ites had de serted their bond age in Egypt.

Conquest By the “Desert Princes”

The Egyp tian scribe Manetho is a late source on the dom i nance and ex pul sion of the
Hyksos. He was ac tive some 1,000 years af ter these events. None the less, he pro vides the in for ma -
tion that af ter the Hyksos in vaded Egypt -- de stroy ing, burn ing, rap ing and rav ag ing -- they es tab -
lished a dy nasty of Hyksos pha raohs. The first of these, Salitis, re sided in Mem phis and “ex acted
trib ute from Up per and Lower Egypt, and left gar ri sons in the places most suited for de fence. In par -
tic u lar he se cured his east ern flank.” To the east of the delta re gion he dis cov ered a fa vor able place
called Auaris -- a stra te gic point from which he could con trol both Egypt and Syria. The fourth
Hyksos king was named Apop, who ruled for 61 years ac cord ing to Manetho.

There is no doubt that the rule of the Hyksos was cruel and bar ba rous. They knew no mercy.
Their for tresses were fre quently places of tor ture. Con fir ma tion of this can be found in Hyksos pe -
riod graves. Notes Sir Flinders-Petrie: “A heap of bones stacked closely to gether, most of them an i -
mals, but among them I found pieces of hu man jaw and pa tella.” “In an other grave I found an
ap par ently sep a rated arm, su per flu ous loose hand” (Hyksos and Is ra el ite Cities, Lon don: 1906, pp.
12f).

The dom i na tion of the Amalekite/Amu/Hyksos was not con fined to Egypt alone. Scarabs
have been re cov ered in var i ous coun tries with the names of King Apop and Khian. The name of
Khian is en graved on a sphinx dis cov ered in Bagh dad and on a jar lid at Knossos in Crete. An in -
scrip tion un cov ered of King Apop says -- “his fa ther Seth, lord of Auaris, had set all for eign coun -
tries un der his feet.” At the site of Auaris the sacrarium of the god Seth (whom the Hyksos had
in tro duced into the Egyp tian Pan theon) has been dis cov ered. The dis cov ery in dis tant coun tries of

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